ATTN JMS: A (gasp!) Babylon 5 question.

[Chris Schumacher]

Hello Joe,

I was just rewatching Deathwalker, and something in the final scene
struck me as odd, and I'm wondering why I never noticed this before.

"The Vorlons are leery of telepaths."

How did Sinclar know something like this, especially when humanity
hadn't even encountered them (that they knew of) until Kosh arrived?

-==Kensu==-

[Jms at B5]

>"The Vorlons are leery of telepaths."
>
>How did Sinclar know something like this, especially when humanity
>hadn't even encountered them (that they knew of) until Kosh arrived?

Word gets around.

jms

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[Iain Clark]

"Jms at B5" <jms...@aol.com> wrote in message
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> >"The Vorlons are leery of telepaths."
> >
> >How did Sinclar know something like this, especially when humanity
> >hadn't even encountered them (that they knew of) until Kosh arrived?
>
> Word gets around.

We see in The Gathering that Kosh's Encounter Suit blocks telepathic
scanning. In the same story, the Vorlon government would have let Kosh die
before allowing anyone to see inside the suit, and that included telepathic
scans. Those facts alone, coupled with Kosh's subsequent behaviour around
Lyta, may have given Sinclair that impression?

Iain

--
"Signs, portents, dreams...next thing
we'll be reading tea leaves and chicken entrails."

[Jerome]

Since we're on B5 trivia...

I believe I read somewhere you wrote "I have the last scene of the last ep in my mind before I've even gotten the first one filmed"!

What scene would this have been? Did it ever change, or was it the last scene of SiL as we saw it? OR - could DoFS have originally been intended as the finale, with the last scene of that episode being the one of which you spoke? Or niether?

I find this interesting, because I've found that in speech making, after you make your opening, the most important thing you can do is keep focused on how you're going to end it.

[Jms at B5]

>I believe I read somewhere you wrote "I have the last scene of the last ep in
>my mind before I've even gotten the first one filmed"!
>
>What scene would this have been? Did it ever change, or was it the last
>scene of SiL as we saw it?

It was basically everything from the last shuttle leaving B5 through to the
end.

[Claudia Mastroianni]

Chris Schumacher <ke...@madison.tdsnet.com> wrote:
: How did Sinclar know something like this, especially when humanity

: hadn't even encountered them (that they knew of) until Kosh arrived?

Well, Delenn *did* give him the Minbari files on the Vorlons early on
in The Gathering.

Claudia
--
She was dangerous, sweet and amoral. -- Jessie Ferguson

[Laura M. Appelbaum]

"Iain Clark" <iainj...@dragonhaven.worldonline.co.uk> wrote in message
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>
> "Jms at B5" <jms...@aol.com> wrote in message
> news:20000830015718...@ng-cp1.aol.com...
> > >"The Vorlons are leery of telepaths."
> > >

> > >How did Sinclar know something like this, especially when humanity
> > >hadn't even encountered them (that they knew of) until Kosh arrived?
> >

> > Word gets around.
>
> We see in The Gathering that Kosh's Encounter Suit blocks telepathic
> scanning. In the same story, the Vorlon government would have let Kosh die
> before allowing anyone to see inside the suit, and that included
telepathic
> scans. Those facts alone, coupled with Kosh's subsequent behaviour around
> Lyta, may have given Sinclair that impression?

Not to mention the fact that in "The Gathering," Delenn gives Sinclair a
copy of all of the Minbari's secret files on the Vorlons.

LMA

[Jerome]

So you'd been practicing turning out all the lights around your house and the office for >5 years, eh?

I could just see it now "no - don't get that switch! I'll get it"!

[Iain Clark]

"Laura M. Appelbaum" <l-app...@mindspring.com> wrote in message
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Assuming that they're not, as Delenn said, very large files with nothing in
them! <g>

[Mark Maher]

Iain Clark wrote in message
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>

<SNIPPAGE>

>>
>Assuming that they're not, as Delenn said, very large files
with nothing in
>them! <g>
>

Having seen and heard what we did in "Babylon 5: In The
Beginning" I would guess that you are not that for from the
truth. The Vorlons were little more than myths to the Minbari at
that time. Of course, Delenn has a great deal more knowledge of
the Vorlons than most other folks. But I doubt that she would
divulge that little fact.

__!_!__
Gizmo

[Iain Clark]

"Laura M. Appelbaum" <l-app...@mindspring.com> wrote in message

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>
> "Iain Clark" <iainj...@dragonhaven.worldonline.co.uk> wrote in message

> news:8op9ir$bhg53$1...@ID-36593.news.cis.dfn.de...

> You have that backwards; *Sinclair* tells Delenn that *Earth's* files on
the
> Vorlons are very large and very empty.

Quite right. I've already been shown the error of my ways! :-) Funny how
the memory plays tricks - I could just imagine Mira Furlan saying that line.

It does mean that Delenn's files coupled with Sinclair's observations more
than explain the "Vorlons are leery of telepaths" line.