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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, arial">quote:</font><HR> I always did wonder too about the Military gov of B5 being the diplomatic envoy from Earth at the same time. I bet JMS didn't want to spend the budget on another actor or maybe just didn't want to spend the time to create another...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, arial">quote:</font><HR> Wouldn't it be interesting to try and communicate with someone whose language is deals with an entirely different set of concepts than human language? Wouldn't that be a riot? Could we even do it? I mean, given enough time, I...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, arial">quote:</font><HR>I mean, hey, the Itanium processor was based upon the old card readers <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Where on earth did you get That?? A card reader was a gadget that shined a Light through a bunch of Holes in a piece of cardboard and...

Re: Londo\'s Three Chances <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, arial">quote:</font><HR> It isn't at all clear that the Centauri believe in any kind of afterlife, <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> What do you call a Pantheon of over 50 Gods? Or the belief that a really Great Emperor can be elevated to...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, arial">quote:</font><HR>It's not like Sheridan and Delenn said, "Join the alliance or we're gonna do something bad." They offered Earth a viable soltuion to the Sheridan problem <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> You obviously didn't look closely at the expression on...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, arial">quote:</font><HR> As for other forms of life... you never know. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Well, one of the life forms postulated in the Starbridge series is an Aquatic race "related" to Mollusks. Clams, Octopus, Oysters, etc. They communicate via...

Re: Londo\'s Three Chances I'm going to have to poke a hole in the theory that Sheridan is the "man who is alredy dead". Lorien stated Very Clearly that Sheridan was NOT Dead. <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, arial">quote:</font><HR> "It's easy to find something worth dying for. Do...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, arial">quote:</font><HR> The Navy may have borrowed the term and refined it later. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Or, the Army borrowed it and got it Wrong. The Army suffers from the problem that, by the time they realize they have a...

Tigara, I didn't learn the meaning of FUBAR from a Movie. I learned it while in the Navy. A bit closer to the source. The Navy understands that battles cause FU. They even Expect it. Recognizing a FU is trivial. It's the Repair part that is critical. If you can't FIX the FU, the ship might...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, arial">quote:</font><HR> Star Trek may have been set in the future, but it was really about 1960s America in space - which explains the mini-skirted female yeomen and the like. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Exactly. Even at the time, it was pretty obvious. The...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, arial">quote:</font><HR> On the Minus Side: Yet another annoying distraction to take JMS's time and attention <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Not that big a deal if JMS keeps the Executive Producer slot for all of them. There are producers in Hollywierd who have...

The premise of "Day of the Dead" is that each person who receives a "Visitation" gets the person and/or message which will be of most benefit to his/her soul. They are, of course, free to reject that message as Lennier did. As far as questioning Morden, Lennier couldn't ask any Other questions...

They ran into a problem when they needed Draal back for his repeat performances. The actor was in the middle of another project and was totally unavailable, so they had to use another actor. The "explanation" is that the Great Machine improved Draal's health so much that he looked like a "new...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, arial">quote:</font><HR> KANE?! Who is that? <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Well, there was the horror/fantasy series by Karl Edward Wagner a while back that featured a main character by that name. Kane had been cursed by a mad God to live forever and never know...

Jaguar, did you grow up listening to some fundie preacher frothing at the mouth about the "Whore of Babylon" or something?? ------------------ Do not ascribe your own motivations to others: At best, it will break your heart. At worst, it will get you dead."

It is correct that Ulkesh was the second Vorlon in War Without End (Kosh was the other). Ulkesh was Never named in any of the TV episodes. We learned his name from the Book and from JMS online posts where he confirmed that the Vorlon, Ulkesh, from the book was the one who appeared with Kosh in...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, arial">quote:</font><HR> How far does this day go back in Brakiri history? If less than a millenium, might want to suspect techomagery... <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Well, since it's a Religious event that only happens at 200 Year Intervals, it is unlikely to be...

Well, if it had been an Illusion, Telepathic or otherwise, the Stellarcom & Babcom systems wouldn't have recorded Garibaldi's adjustment for communications to the rest of B5 as originating on the Brakiri homeworld. It's kinda tough to hypnotize a computer, let alone the entire communication...

I didn't think chow was "trolling". It looked to ME like he was trying to get a laugh. Chow, use more emoticons! ------------------ Do not ascribe your own motivations to others: At best, it will break your heart. At worst, it will get...

One of the things that Distinguishes the Babylon 5 universe is a "law of nature" borrowed from Joe Bob Briggs: "Anyone can Die at Any Time!" The unpredictability is one of the things that makes the stories more interesting and "Real", since that IS the way things work in real life: Sometimes...