From: jarrell@babylon5.cc.vt.edu   
      
   FranticInFresno  wrote:   
      
   > "Ron Jarrell"  wrote in message   
   > news:cdrc38$9s6$2@solaris.cc.vt.edu...   
   >> FranticInFresno  wrote:   
   >> > Once again, the moderators have not seen fit to post my reply.  After   
   > 2-3   
   >> > days, will try it here instead.   
   >> > FIF   
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   >> >> Sinclair left him a message (pass code: Hello Old friend).   
   >> >> The point was, that if Garibaldi accompanied them he would die on B4   
   > (per   
   >> >> the vision you mentioned) in the past with Sinclair during the prior   
   >> > Shadow   
   >> >> war.   
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   >> But B4 wasn't destroyed in the first shadow war - it survived,   
   >> derelict, for another thousand years.  Nor did sinclair die on b4,   
   >> obviously, since he was already valenn by the time he got to Minbar.   
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   > As for the Valen part, during the "alternate time line flashback sequence",   
   > Garabaldi was telling Sinclair to leave while he (Garabaldi) stayed behind   
   > to hold the enemy off thus covering Sinclair's escape.  "I was born for this   
   > moment" or some such statement from Garabaldi as he tries to brush off   
   > Sinclair's concerns.   
      
   > The flashback didn't include enough info about the outcome of the skirmish.   
   > One possible scenario; after an intense battle (which may have taken   
   > Garabaldi's life), the invaders were repulsed thus leaving B4 intact.   
      
   > As for Sinclair being Valen "by the time he got to Minbar", who's to say how   
   > the timeline may have changed once Garabaldi was left behind.   
      
   Yea, but someone I don't think the timeline changed enough for   
   there to be a station full of humans there to rescue.  I always viewed   
   that as being Babylon 5 anyway, not visions of Babylon 4.   
      
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