ATTN JMS: Lyta & G'Kar Story (Spoilers)

[Tammy Smith]

Spoilers For Amazing Stories' Lyta & G'Kar Story

I was wondering a couple of things. First off, in the "Straczynski
Speaks" section of Amazing Stories, it says that you will be continuing
Lyta's story in your fiction. Are you still going to do this?

Also, this may sound dumb, but I was wondering how Lyta was able to send
G'Kar a telepathic message in the story, since he isn't a telepath. I
guess I missed something in the series!

About G'Kar's reluctance to have people follow him: I was thinking how
people are uneasy about Gore being president because they think he has
no personality. People seem to respond to strong personalities in
leaders, so, in my opinion, this is why people want to follow G'Kar. He
has a larger-than-life personality, so even though he thinks he doesn't
have the answers, his followers think he does because of how he comes
across.

Tammy

[Steve Brinich]

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> Also, this may sound dumb, but I was wondering how Lyta was able to
> send G'Kar a telepathic message in the story, since he isn't a
> telepath. I guess I missed something in the series!

It was clearly established in the first minute Bester was onscreen that
telepaths can send to mundanes -- first, a guard directs him to
Sinclair's office without being (verbally) asked to do so; next, Sinclair
tells Bester to "get out of my head" and converse verbally.

--
Steve Brinich <ste...@Radix.Net> If the government wants us
http://www.Radix.Net/~steveb to respect the law
89B992BBE67F7B2F64FDF2EA14374C3E it should set a better example

[Jms at B5]

>Also, this may sound dumb, but I was wondering how Lyta was able to send
>G'Kar a telepathic message in the story, since he isn't a telepath. I
>guess I missed something in the series!

We've had other examples in the show of someone sending a telepathic signal to
someone else who wasn't a teep...Kosh to Sheridan being the one that comes to
mind right offhand. We've established in the books that a teep can send into a
normal, but obviously it doesn't work in the other direction.

jms

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[Mac Breck]

Except that the normal can think the reply, and the teep can read it. The
normal just can't send.

Mac

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[Tammy Smith]

Thanks for telling me the answer to my question--I had been wondering
for awhile about the "teeps sending to normals" thing.

Tammy

[Mac Breck]

What I meant was that a normal who's aware of a teep's preference to not go
to the bother of speaking, may purposely "think" the answer to a teep's
question to give the answer.

Mac

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[Michael Bush]

here's a quote that normals can send messages to telepaths, just they don't
normaly reply with their minds.

"Do you know what a telepath has to do in order to avoid picking up stray
thoughts? We have to kick down our natural abilities, run rhymes and little
songs through our heads 'round and 'round. All that to keep from picking up
what you're broadcasting loud enough to be heard halfway down the hall.
You're one of those people who rehearses everything, Mr. Garibaldi. You
never enter a situation until you've gone over it and over it a hundred
times, worked out what you will say and what the other person will say, how
you'll respond. It's .. quite remarkable and extremely depressing. That
little personality quirk must have cost you more than a few relationships.
Mundanes want us to fill our heads with noise and babble so we won't hear
what you're shouting at the top of your minds."

-- Byron to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"The Paragon of Animals"

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