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   "Mac Breck"  writes:   
      
   > "Gordon D. Pusch"    
   > wrote in message news:giekx0vakk.fsf@pusch.xnet.com...   
   >> "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 ???   
   >   
   > Sinclair had the info. He took it back 1000 years into the   
   > past with him.   
      
   _A_ Sinclair went back into the past. Certain events happened during _his_   
   life.   
   There is no guarantee that _THIS_ time around the time-loop, the _EXACT_ same   
   sequence of events _had_ to occur in _this_ Sinclair's life. Time is _NOT_   
   "fixed"   
   in the B5 Universe. The com signals from the future in "B squared" showed   
   Ivonova   
   being killed and B5 being destroyed in an attack while Ivonova was a commander;   
   that did _NOT_ happen to _this_ Ivonova, who became and old and bitter admiral,   
   nor _this_ B5, which was retired and scuttled lest she become a navigation   
   hazard.   
   _A_ future Garibaldi died while still in EarthForce in the future of "B   
   Squared,"   
   whereas _this_ Garibaldi left EarthForce, married Lise, and took over Edgers   
   Industries.   
      
   There was no unique "the" future or "the" past in the B5 Universe ---   
   MANY different timelines existed. _A_ version of Sinclair went back 1000 years   
   and became Valen, the previous time around the time-looop. _Another_ Sinclair   
   _also_ went back to become Valen in "War Withourt End" --- but he was a   
   _different_   
   Sinclair who may well have had very different life experiences. Even if the   
   Vorlon   
   of the previous turn of the time-loop sucked his mind dry and archived   
   EVERYTHING,   
   there is =NO= guarantee events would proceed _exactly_ the same way _THIS_   
   time.   
   Some did --- and some didn't. Time in the B5 Universe is mutable.   
      
      
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