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Maybe a kind of subcontract system like a commercial telepath but with the more limited abilities more of an "extra" in a job where they can depend on other skills? for example someone dealing with admin having training there but also the ability to block a scan to prevent info getting out.

This always stuck me as a bit of an echo of Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun where bureaucracy has grown so vast such things carry on for hundreds/thousands of years and situations like NaThoth happen without the malice behind them that might be expected, both focused somewhat on torture as...

The impression I got was that most of the lower level telepaths didn't work directly for the Corps and weren't let in on its more sinister motives. Whilst I would imagine working purely as a telepath would have been difficult for someone on the kind of level Ivanova was at there do seem obvious...

My guess it was just a bit of shorthand by JMS, a lot of the public understand that carbon dating allows you to judge the age of old objects without really understanding that it works via radioactive half life.

For Ivanova I would say the emotional breakdown in the short term was extreme but really I ment the whole situation including the self judgement and leaving B5. The latter was forced on JMS but I'm guessing it was considered a potential trap door and it works partly for that reason IMHO. I'm...

You could argue I spose that potentially ending the series after season 4 ment that JMS reduced any resentment from Lennier in season 4 he might have planned. In terms of playing off of a moral naivety I think JMS did that well with Ivanova prior to this. Her extreme reaction to the situation...

Same age as me and very much mirrors my experience, it was really only when I started posting more seriously on the net in the early 00's that I picked up on the whole B5/DS9 fued. For more recent viewers I would guess the two issues might be that B5 does show a lower budget in places and that...

The impression I'v always gotten is that in the US there was a lot more of a "fanboy" divide between Trek and B5 with fans of the former not wanting to acknowledge the latter. I'v never picked up as much of this elsewhere and perhaps it partly explains why B5 did relatively better here in...

The dodgy looking fake rocks were around for a lot of TNG as well and even latter series had the odd not so brilliant "natural" location. The main weakness of C&C for me wasn't the monitors but rather than the printouts that were sposd to be controls or displays always looked a bit...

I'm with you in not picking up any real disappointment from Lennier about Sheridans return, the main pointer before season 5 is his conversation from Marcus back in season 3. Again I feel a better way to take Lenniers story might have been to prey of his naivety. Not in practical terms of...

In terms of FX I actually think B5 benefited a lot from JMS working within the limits of what he could do at that time with that budget. Most of the CGI was limited to space battles that technically are much easier to deal with even back then(well from season 2 on anyway). What helps as well I...

Which just didn't play with the way the character had developed prior to that for me, we didn't really get the sense he was only involved in the cause due to love for Delenn. Another way to do it might I'd say have been to have him not fail the moral standards of others but his own moral...

The #1 problem to me seemed to be that he simply didn't get enough focus in season 5 to have a "turn" built up and executed well. This episode is arguably a good example of that as he's not really given prime focus even though his story links into the arc more than anyone elses. I think playing...

There were obviously some Klingons who were less "honourable" than others.in TNG era trek, prior to that they weren't really portrayed as "space Vikings". Again what makes the Centauri more interesting for me is that its not just "culture" that unifies them but reacting to the political...

Honestly I don't have a problem with the idea of Lennier committing some kind of betrayal out of love for Delenn but it was just done in a ham fisted fashion that went too against the grain for his character. Rather I would have preferred some kind of disobedience to try and save Delenn...

The Caligula like character has IMHO become rather Shakespearian to the degree that I think its more interesting to see it given a different placement/bent rather than looking on it as lacking originality. Beyond the obvious Roman influence in the Centauri I believe JMS has said theres more...

There is an existing thread for WWE pt2, maybe this should be merged into it? I got the impression that the journey back in time was pretty lengthy given that Sinclair has time to undergo the transformation that took Delenn a fair while, long enough for Zathras to wipe the stations computers...

True but you could argue that the restart might have taken somewhat of a different form had a more definite line been drawn under the Sheridan/Delenn story. As you say they do naturally move more into the background in season 5 but perhaps a bit more of a shift that direction could have helped...

You could I spose argue that Babylon 5 did several other "odd" things such as the flash forward to Centaury Prime in WWE revealing so much of the coming story. Really my point isn't just that Sleeping in Light might have benefited from being included at the end of season 4 but that season 5...

That's what I ment, unless theres some comment from JMS on the specifics I'v not read exactly to what degree he wrote sleeping in light to be an ideal finish to a 4 season B5 relative to a 5 season version will always be a bit of guesswork. Personally my feeling is that it was more of the former...