Re: update from jms

On 26 Oct 2003 00:20:59 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Gordon D. Pusch) wrote:

>"Mac Breck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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...)
>
>
>-- Gordon D. Pusch   
>
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Simple, because it was Kosh and Ulkesh that met Sinclair a 
millennium ago so Kosh knew who he was and his importance.  
Why do you think he hung around in the Minbari leader secret 
chambers for a thousand years!!  It was to ensure that Sinclair 
would fulfill his destiny and go back along with B4 and supply 
them with the station and help begin the shaping of the Minbari
society for the future so that they would eventually unite with
the humans to become the new mature species in this portion
of space.

They've know for a thousand years what would happen!
What they don't know about is everything that happens
AFTER Sinclair leaves.

As far as the alternate timeline goes that exists only in an
alternate universe.  If you read JMS's comments he's not
a strong supporter of changing this universe through time
travel.  It's basically his opinion that Sinclair will always go
back in the universe and that what we saw was not so
much our alternate future but and alternate universe with
it's own future.  Of course, these our opinions but the
physics of timespace do suggest that the future and
past are always in connection.  It's our matter that's
moving through timespace and not time that's moving 
through us.  Time remains as it is and it's us that is
changing.