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   On Fri, 15 Sep 2006 18:32:30 -0400, Jeffrey Kaplan    
   wrote:   
      
   >It is alleged that Michael Johnson claimed:   
   >   
   >> If we were going for a 'If Sinclair had stayed' universe.. Sheridan   
   >> was a minor character introduced in season 2 episode 1 when he got   
   >> assigned by the Clark as Starkiller and the great hater of Minbari and   
   >> vice versa to guard his interests at Babylon 5. He now spends the   
   >> first half of the year babysitting Sinclair integrated to the stories   
   >> here and there leading up to "In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum" where he   
   >> finds out his wife Anna was killed by the shadows. After fruitlessly   
   >> trying to get the information from Morden he's talked down by Delenn   
   >> who tells him of this great war that is coming and off he goes to   
   >> Minbar to eventually create the Rangers. Amazingly.. late in the third   
   >> season he shows back up in a ripping two-parter where we go back in   
   >> time and he shows up as Valen.   
   >   
   >At least some of that is wrong.   
   >   
   >Sinclair is and always was to become Valen.   
      
   Btw.. one other question.. you do understand it makes much more sense   
   given the character requirements of Valen for it to be Sheridan rather   
   than Sinclair right?   
      
   Lets see.. a Minbari not born of Minbar that shows up 1000 years in   
   the past as the Shadows are openly kicking Minbari and everyone elses   
   ass, including the destruction of their biggest space station. Using   
   Babylon 4 he leads a come-from-behind effort to fight off the Shadows   
   MILITARILY and cause them to go back into hibernation. Afterwards he   
   brings the Minbari together and ends up forming the Grey Council and   
   bringing the various castes to an internal peace that lasts for 1000   
   years.   
      
   Exactly where in the show was it shown that Sinclair was some great   
   military mind capable of doing the first part? He sure didn't learn it   
   from the religious nutjobs during his year and a half on Minbar. They   
   can teach the religious part.. not the warrior part. And the best   
   Sinclair ever did when facing impossible odds in a military situation   
   was go kamikaze. Hmm.. can't think of anything like that he'd do if he   
   stayed.. like maybe divebombing a white star into Z'ha'dum while   
   jumping in a big ass hole?   
      
   Sheridan on the other hand does have that history of pulling victory   
   from certain defeat. Of finding a way, any way, to be able to come out   
   the victor. His character is someone I believe could fight back the   
   shadows to a standstill.. not Sinclair.   
      
   It also works better on the other end. Sinclair, it was shown, has the   
   ability to bring differing sides together. I certainly believe he   
   would have the ability with which to marshall the forces and convince   
   them to work together against the Shadows and Vorlons. The end to the   
   Shadow War wasn't simply a military victory but an idealistic one.   
   That by proving the younger races could stand on their own that there   
   was no longer a need for the Shadows and Vorlons.   
      
   In essence.. the two characters ended up playing the opposite of their   
   character types as a result of Sinclair leaving.   
      
   -MJ   
      
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