Originally posted by Chew
OK, more fifth season questions. So you know the drill.....

Spoiler:

Yesterday was The Fall of Centauri Prime, which began the fires in the capitol and Londo became Emperor. According to War Without End and In the Beginning, 17 years have passed between the attack and when Sheridan shows up. So the question is: 17 years and they still haven't put out the fires??? Or done any rebuilding? Maybe this is the Drakh idea of "pleasant surroundings"?

Or is that just another Trek-doors and Stargate-wormhole type thing?

Originally posted by xVladx

Originally posted by Bandoman
Did Kosh I fight back when attacked by the Vorlons?

If so, why isn't his telepathic ability effective against the individual Shadows - or is telepathy only effective in breaking the concentration of whoever is running the Shadow ships?

And why don't Shadows themselves run the ships instead of getting other races to do so?

Originally posted by Jlbkwrm
Random speculation, since I don't know a thing (Hey, at least I'm not going 'heh heh heh').



I think he did--I don't know that they could have shown Kosh fighting, though, since I don't know how they'd show him (He couldn't have looked like anybody's religious figure, since there was nobody around.)

Originally posted by Wizdar
How about this:

Zathras
Zathras
Zathras


Hmmm. Not the one.

Ambassador Sinclair returns to pull Babylon 4 through time.

Londo's description of Sheridan's victory over the Shadows makes it sound like a fairly distant event, but the Centauri capital city was burning while Sheridan stood there. Perhaps the Shadow minions Londo mentioned have been slowly destroying the city, building by building, since the close of the war, and the Centauri have been powerless to stop them. Or, perhaps, the end of the war isn't as far back as Londo implies. (It's interesting to note that Londo doesn't appear surprised by Sheridan's appearance or by the fact that Sheridan hasn't aged.)

Sheridan looks older (his hair is lighter) and may be dressed in something other than his uniform as he visits Londo in the throne room -- it looks like he's wearing a leather jacket, but his outfit isn't shown clearly enough to tell for sure. If it's different, though, could his trip forward be along the lines of the flashforward experienced by Sinclair and Garibaldi, rather than a physical transfer? If so, where is his body?

In "Babylon Squared," Zathras hands his time stabilizer to the space-suited figure (possibly Sinclair,) who promptly vanishes. Was that a replacement for Sheridan's stabilizer, or for another broken one?

Originally posted by das Monkey

Spoiler:

My name is das Monkey ... and I'm an addict.

Originally posted by das Monkey

How did Sinclair get the chrysalis machine? Did the Vorlons supply it? It seemed to do a much more thorough job on Sinclair than it did on Delenn; in appearance, at least, Valen was a pure Minbari, not half-human.

An odder explanation is that Sinclair got it from Delenn, who got it (indirectly) from Valen; in that case, the machine was never actually invented.

Why did Sinclair choose to call himself Valen? Was it simply because of the contents of his letter? In that case, nobody ever actually invented the name; it was chosen because it was the name he ended up using.

Now that Sinclair has travelled back in time, the accuracy of Valen's prophecies is probably at an end. Valen could predict the start of the Shadow War, and the breaking of the Grey Council, because he'd lived through it, but anything after his departure to the past is a complete unknown to him (unless, of course, the Vorlons have some way of telling him.)

The assumption at the end of the episode seems to be that by successfully pulling Babylon 4 back in time, the crew has averted the Shadow attack on Babylon 5 in eight days, in which Ivanova sends out the distress call heard in part one. Does that mean that Sinclair's flashforward to the firefight aboard B5 has also been averted? What about Lady Ladira's vision of the destruction of Babylon 5? ("Signs and Portents") If all those glimpses of the future are no longer true, how much validity do the remaining ones have? Each of them could be from a completely different possible future, none of which will end up ever taking place.

What is Londo's "keeper?" Who gave it to him? What exactly is it forcing him to do, and why? The fact that it's invisible when awake suggests that it's associated with the Shadows, who have mastered the art of invisibility.

How did Sinclair get the chrysalis machine? Did the Vorlons supply it? It seemed to do a much more thorough job on Sinclair than it did on Delenn; in appearance, at least, Valen was a pure Minbari, not half-human.

Originally posted by Chew
Just finishing up with Season 5 on Sci-Fi

Can anyone tell me if any of the books deal with the

Spoiler:

Garibaldi/Lyta 2 year deal regarding his mental block? I see he's on the cover of one of the Psi-Corp books, but didn't want to spoil anything by reading about it.

I already ordered the Centauri trilogy based on xVladx's answer above. If the answer to this question is "yes", I guess I'll have to get the whole set.

I'm pretty sure I have the original run of books from several years ago, but none of the recent trilogies......

Originally posted by xVladx
Hope that actually makes sense, and wasn't TOO vague .

Lyta tests the limits of the Shadows' newly-discovered weakness. Dr. Franklin goes on a journey to discover his place in life, and meets a singer in Downbelow. The new Ambassador Kosh arrives on the station.

It's clear that Lyta believes, based on her vision, that Sheridan may hold part of Kosh within him. What that means -- for Sheridan, for Lyta, and for Kosh -- remains to be seen.

In "All Alone in the Night," Kosh tells Sheridan, "I have always been here." Could he perhaps have been referring to Sheridan's mind, implying that Sheridan has carried a piece of Kosh for quite some time?

Telepathic control over Shadow ships is tenuous at best, and may be limited to preventing them from attacking; the three ships being held by the Minbari telepaths were free to flee the scene when G'Kar and the others arrived.

Every sentient race, according to G'Kar, has food resembling Swedish meatballs. The Narn call it "breen." Since the Vorlons have manipulated all the younger races, perhaps Swedish meatballs are really a Vorlon delicacy, part of an intricate plan to defeat the Shadows through culinary unity.

Originally posted by Chew
Vague enough not to be a spoiler and still answer my question at the same time, thanks.

Of course, here you go spending more of my money 'cause it looks like I have to buy all the books now.