Babylon 5: The Unanswered Questions
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IIRC, JMS hinted at the Apocalypse Box as being something Vorlon. He said something to the effect that if Galen, whose technomage abilities is based on Shadow Tech, knew about the box, some bad things would happen.
How was Psi Corp able to amass so much funding to get their station. As shown in Crusade, I believe.
When he arrived on Cloud City, he was greeted by a beautiful young woman who instantly took a shine to him. She was the only daughter of a young moister vaporator builder who...
...too much...?
- What happened to Catherine Sakai?
- What happened to Bureau 13?
- Why did Delenn and Lennier only mention two Minbari castes in the first season?
- Why does Babylon 5 have no Cobra fighter bays in The Gathering?
- Why does Draal look different between A Voice in the Wilderness and The Long Twilight Struggle yet Delenn doesn't notice?
- Why is Delenn's dress different in War Without End compared to Babylon Squared?
- Why does Major Krantz says Zathras was found in the conference room when he was really found in a store room?
- Why do I think someone will actually try and answer my questions even though I'm joking?
- What happened to Bureau 13?
- Why did Delenn and Lennier only mention two Minbari castes in the first season?
- Why does Babylon 5 have no Cobra fighter bays in The Gathering?
- Why does Draal look different between A Voice in the Wilderness and The Long Twilight Struggle yet Delenn doesn't notice?
- Why is Delenn's dress different in War Without End compared to Babylon Squared?
- Why does Major Krantz says Zathras was found in the conference room when he was really found in a store room?
- Why do I think someone will actually try and answer my questions even though I'm joking?
Because they can. Because they can.
I'm no expert, but JMS basically said that Crusade *wasn't* "about the Drakh Plague"
The idea was it would get cured at the end of the first season or start of the second, and lead into bigger problems: the show was "about" the surviving Shadow technology
Remember the heavy-handed speech they give at the end of the Fall of Centauri Prime, when Franklin says that it's just like when the Cold War ended and the Soviet Union broke up, and so every two-bit dictator got his hands on Russian nuclear weapons and WMD's? San Diego got destroyed by a rogue terrorist nuke acquired from Russia.
Also...the Telepath War happening off-screen was odd, but you kind of know who wins, so it was maybe more interesting to deal with the aftermath.
It was the Rogue Telepaths led by Lyta (with funding from two major sources: the Narn Regime, which was near-bankrupt but willing to give what they could in exchange for telepath DNA to splice back into their gene pool; and from Garibaldi-run Edgars Industries, in return for removing the neural blocks Bester put in his head) versus the Psi Corps.
Edgars even predicted the Telepath War's course before Clark was overthrown; he said that Clark getting overthrown was a foregone conclusion, because one way or another, the major corporations on Earth were starting to get fed up with him so he was losing even that basic support; plus Sheridan looked like he was winning. The REAL problem he said, was all of the Psi Corps units that Clark had put into high places of power to serve as "bloodhound units" to sniff out traitors. They would stay in power even after Clark was gone.
***The interesting part is that the unaired scripts for episodes actually involving Bester on Crusade emphasize that the Mundanes (normal humans) insist on calling it "the Telepath Conflict" as if it was a rebellion or insurrection, and Bester makes a point to say that it was a "war"
The Psi Corps are interesting "bad guys" because they're really only on their own side:
oh, elements are willing to work with the Shadows....but Bester knows the Vorlons made the telepaths to be footsoldiers in the Shadow War, and then the Shadows just wanted to use the as footsoldiers too. Basically slaves. Meanwhile, the Psi Corps is *using* Clark to further their own goals; it's not really clear whether they believe in Clark's xenophobia or not.
And of course, Edgars used his corporation's research labs to identify the telepath gene and develop a virus that targets it in an act of genocide.
Either way, the telepaths wind up dead or enslaved.
The funny thing was that the Psi Corps developed as a means of controlling the telepaths....but once ghettoized, they sort of coalesced into their own leadership. The telepaths that actually RUN Psi Corps are ruthless SOB's who want to use forced breeding experiments to make stronger telepaths (preparing for the inevitable war between telepaths and normal people), and capture free telepaths to be troops in their new order.
The Rogue Telepaths are of course, screwed on both counts: even if they defeat the Psi Corps, the original problem was "humans descriminate against telepaths"
Yet SOMEHOW they've fixed this by Crusade and the Telepath War ended in victory for the Rogues despite the death of their leadership.
Insert "Bush" and "Muslims" for some insight into your question.
When he arrived on Cloud City, he was greeted by a beautiful young woman who instantly took a shine to him. She was the only daughter of a young moister vaporator builder who...
...too much...?
I was actually going to say, Lobot.
As Clark was deliberately left as an off-screen character, jms meant us never to know for sure.
But one set of possibles runs like this:
Clark didn't really hate aliens that much, he just started out using anti-alien sentiment as a route to power.
and once in power... he thought he was only playing one set of aliens off against the others, and would eventually be in a position to take charge himself (on behalf of Earth, which would obviously be more powerful than ever under his wise leadership). By the time he realized what he'd go himself into with the Shadows, assuming he ever did, it was too late.
Hold on... I have a feeling I just described Londo's story arc...
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BDS is a tragic affliction...but working together we can find a cure...
Sadly, getting over denial and right wing nutjobism takes a lot longer.
Okay - I guess that settles it.
Have to break out my commentaries again one day soon!
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/points and laughs at partisan fruitloop.
