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Skriven 2006-07-04 13:06:00 av Robert E Starr JR (3763.babylon5)
Ärende: Re: Denn-shah?
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"Joseph DeMartino" <jdemarti@bellsouth.net> wrote in message 
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> Laura Appelbaum wrote:
>
>> Let's also not forget the Minbari love of semantics -- remember when
>> Sheridan comes aboard and accuses a Minbari of lying and Delenn tells
>> Lennier he "didn't hear that" because if he *did* hear what he just 
>> heard,
>> they'd have to kill Sheridan for having made the accusation?
>
> There IS certaintly that. <g>  But part of me prefers to believe that
> they're all such anal little bastards that they really didn't consider
> murdering one another for a thousand years because some guy with a
> glowing stick had told them not to.  <g>

A guy with a glowing *triangle* on a stick. <G>  The stick doesn't glow, the 
triangle does.  And only for him.  Or his children.

And a honking big space station full of pretty, shiny, working weapons and 
fighter ships.

And let's not forget the two classically Minbari angels at his side.

And said guy with the magical glowing triangle on a stick, the six mile long 
mint condition alien space station, the pair of angels, you know, he's got a 
scary temper of his own.  And hey, he popped up out of nowhere once, and he 
says he's coming back -- do *you* want to be the one to tell him you didn't 
listen to what he'd told you to do and not do?   I didn't *think* so.

Of course by Delenn's time
> the pressure cooker that Valen capped, but didn't take off the boil, is
> starting to leak from a number of different points and the distance
> between the ideals of Valen and the reality of Minbar is getting bigger
> all by the minute.

Of course, Valen knew that's what would happen, because he knew, as 
Sinclair, the kind of total war the Minbari were capable of waging, and if 
he'd ever talked with Delenn about her conversations with her old friend 
Draal, about how he felt the Minbari people had lost their way and were 
becoming selfish and self-absorbed, well, Valen would have known that was 
inevitable too.  I think he would have been okay with that; when you think 
about who Sinclair was, what he was about; he was always the 
self-depreciating type, a man whose abilities and experiences place him in 
leadership positions, but who, perhaps from his Jesuit upbringing, sees 
himself more as a servant.  A servant to higher ideals, to better morals, to 
pursuing greater justice.  I think he could have ended his life as Valen, 
knowing what he knows about the future and knowing where his efforts will be 
limited, his prophecies slighted, his wisdom ignored, and be okay with that, 
because he did his very best, gave -- literally -- himself body and soul to 
the dual causes of ending the First Shadow War and trying to transform 
Minbari society to be more equitable to all it's members.  He knows he's 
just a man, even if the Minbari try to make him into some kind of a god, and 
as a man, he did his best.  To expect more would be to imply that maybe he 
*is* somehow godly, and you just know how he'd laugh at that suggestion.

:Sigh: I miss having a show, a story mean as much to me as Sinclair has over 
the years.  Just a great, great character.

LMA
                                            
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