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They *do* consider their leaders too precious, and invest them with needless authority (like power to start wars). But now, GKarsEye... please mention a B5 civilization which behaves differently from this. -- Should its emperor be assassinated, would the Centauri Republic refrain from war? --...

Upon examining Delenn's choice (to refrain from soliciting Minbari intervention in defense of Narn)... the following factors may deserve consideration: 1) Minbari government doesn't follow Delenn's whim. She has notable authority, but not dictatorial powers. 2) For Minbari to invest resources...

Re: Tonight\'s Lost (Did anyone notice?) Watched it. Saw Mira too... and liked her performance as usual. But I really cannot help smiling, when I mentally overlay Delenn instead of Danielle... and keep wondering what a Minbari ambassador is doing there. :D Shuffling and rearranging the pieces...

Re: JMS - Reputation (relating to potential projec While thinking about the average longevity of television series -- and consequently what to expect from an average project in SF -- I stumbled upon someone called JMS writing:

Re: Tonight\'s Lost (Did anyone notice?) On some occasions, it seems natural that *particular* characters won't share information. However, upon other situations... this might have been extended further than is easily believable.

Re: Tonight\'s Lost (Did anyone notice?) I haven't watched this episode yet. And though, perhaps, I would likewise hope to see some questions answered... my patience will suffice to wait a notable while longer. On other notes... I heard that DVD disks will be available in Autumn. Might not...

In crude terms... I think the difference was... that even if they didn't know the full deal... technomages volunteered for the ride. They knew their implants would be tools and weapons -- assisting and extending some of their abilities notably beyond unenhanced peers. They knew: once the...

Re: Tonight\'s Lost (Did anyone notice?) Sailing, mind you... not floating. Pacific islanders crossed notable distanced in their catamarans -- without a compass (besides: once you get out of a magnetic anomaly, it generally starts to work fine), without a picture of the Pacific Ocean with...

"Inversions" is good... but aside from one character hovering on the edge of guessability... and the home civilization of three characters in the main story (hinted at, but never even named)... it's not science fiction! If "Inversions" happened on Earth, it would occur sometime around the 17th...

Re: JMS - Reputation (relating to potential projec 1) May I request your assessment... on which percentage of pilot movies become television shows... and which percent of television shows ever reach a "planned" ending? I am poorly informed about this... but to my knowledge, most television...

As you said... argument by authority... but every authority errs, and every rule has exceptions. In this case, I consider his assistance unethical -- and think he should have refused. By default I don't trust anyone. I would strive *not* to trust... either telepaths or mundanes beyond the...

You are forgetting the situation. The options were: 1) Force about 50 innocent victims to act as weapons, thus saving the lives of (maximum estimate) 1500 Earth Force crewmembers. Said Earth Force crewmembers had *no* business defending a dictator, were *completely* free to shoot their...

I don't think he could afford negotiating under telepathic lie-detection. Assuming that medical aid administered by Lorien (or Kosh having borrowed his brain for temporary shelter)... really did turn it incompatible for telepathic reading or manipulation of thought... the other negotiator's...

Re: keepB5alive Stage 2 As requested, reality check: ------------------------- Novel financing models are prominently featured among my pet topics... and I have often wondered if something currently done top-down... could be feasibly launched the other way around. In the field of software...

I personally don't consider his choice regarding the telepaths "streamlined" in any sense. I consider it a simple grievous error. Very luckily not the beginning of a string of errors. If "streamlined" means "capable of seeing beyond one's nose"... Sheridan's choice was not streamlined. He...

Re: IT\'S DEAD, JIM? Make it without achieving some level of agreement? I don't think so. It would be unlikely to yield anything decent. They would only burn fingers (thus excluding a future attempt).

Re: Newsonly: JMS letter-writing for Trek. Recants Information is better than speculation. Thanks for relaying it. :)

Soldiers bear arms either voluntarily, or because they are threatened with retribution from state. A state which coerces people to fight, or an officer who represents such state... are nothing else but criminals, and deserve stopping by any means suitable (weapons being the last). In coercing...

Re: IT\'S DEAD, JIM? Most likely other components of the recipe. Or whether it would make money (and how much).

There is another problem, with even less letters: WB. :) But ultimately, neither the goal of JMS nor WB... ...is producing more Babylon 5 "no matter what". Neither is my goal influencing them to produce it "no matter what". When an agreement cannot be negotiated, they will call it off, and...