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   "Mac Breck"  writes:   
      
   >  wrote in message   
   >> You forget that Kosh recognized him as Valen.  So would   
   >> the other Vorlons.  It's clear that they only wanted to   
   >> take   
   >> him to protect him in their custody.  In the end, he goes   
   >> to   
   >> the Minbari homeworld where he also gets training which   
   >> he then teaches to them upon his arrival in the past when   
   >> the Vorlons present him to the Minbari as Valen.   
   >   
   > Unlikely, since they would also know that Sinclair needed to   
   > stay on B5 for all of 2258 if they were not going to alter   
   > and possibly screw-up the timeline. Remember, Sinclair did   
   > some important things when he was on B5 in 2258 (saved   
   > Delenn from the Soul Hunter, headed the mission to get the   
   > crew off of B4, etc.).   
      
   But how would the Volrons know any of those things, since they haven't   
   happened yet ???  Even Vorlons may not "know the future" in any great detail.   
   Moreover, it is clear from Sheridan's experiences while "unstuck in time,"   
   and from the glimpse of Ivonova and Garibaldi dying and B5 being destroyed   
   in a future that didn't happen, etc. that various "alternate" futures   
   are possible, and that no glipmse of a _possible_ future imlies that it   
   will actually come to pass.  Individuals _still_ have free will, and can   
   influence the outcomes of events by there choices, however much the tide   
   of events outside their limited control might work against them.   
      
   Finally, there is always the factor of Vorlon arrogance. The Vorlon might   
   have decided based on their partial knowledge of what happened on the   
   previous turn of the "Wheel of Fire" that they could simply "short circuit"   
   the time-loop by hauling Sinclair off whenever they wished. (Remember,   
   the average Vorlon had very little respect for individual "lesser beings;"   
   all they valued was the dutiful obedience of their pulse-cannon fodder.   
   The Vorlon may well have thought Sinclair useful only as their puppet   
   and game-piece, and perhaps for the genes he carried, which would alter   
   the stagnating course of Minbari evolution and initiate the process   
   whereby Humans and Minbari would eventually become a single race...)   
      
      
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