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Fan fic 7 (really 7)

B5-the reboot. The time-travel shenanigans are due to the B5 command staff bringing Babylon 4 to their future. This is done because the station had been destroyed by the Centauri five years earlier.   The war with the Minbari-and Delenn's mysterious pregnancy (this was supposed to be a big deal in my original idea for a reboot, with everyone from Lennir to G'kar a suspect, along with the Shadows being defeated in the past through the actions of the B5 command staff)-had been halted when the Grey Council discovered that Sheridan was in fact a Minbari, surgically altered to look human. Or, that was in my original line of thinking. The B4 issue always end up confusing me-does it go forward in time or does it go back?-my thinking now is that it is sent back in time, but totally accidentally, and with Babylon 5's original commander aboard. But he isn't called Jeffery/John Sinclair because having two characters with the same initials annoys me so Kosh/Sinclair (I'm ...

Fan Theories 15

Pokémon Fan Theories: Sooooooo, big essay or just notes and hopes that people can understand my inane ramblings? Well, I'll try and do both. I think the reason is that a brief comparison requires too many outside references and a large article just seems like rambling on to make one look more intelligent than one actually is.  So, really a comment on society.  Which is what all good (science) fiction really is.  And you can really learn something from it. Honestly. Pokémon bears comparisons with the work of Arthur C. Clarke and Joe Haldeman, particularly the novels "Childhood's End" and "Forever Free". Forever Free  is a direct sequel to Haldeman's war novel  The Forever War . At the end of   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Forever_War   a group entity called "Man" is in charge of Earth.  Forever Free   introduces beings who could, conceivably, actually be Pokémon: a hitherto hidden race ...