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#babylon5 #therangers
https://babylon5.fandom.com/wiki/Anla%27Shok

#Reddit actually has some good discussions about the contradictions with the #narrative in B5, particularly about the time Marcus Cole and his brother spent training considering "it takes a year to learn Minbari":

https://www.reddit.com/r/babylon5/comments/1rf8kgx/about_the_rangers_timeline/

Soo, as broadcast there are some things which means this isn't quite a contradiction but we need the additional information from that Marcus would have learned Minbari during the War
Also: 2258 (August?) Grey

This crossover #StarTrek episode to #Babylon5 is the classic one where Enterprise is sucked into a wormhole to an alternate past, attempt to save the crew of Whitestar 14 before the battle of Coriana 6, get destroyed by Shadow vessels, resetting their timeline back before entering the wormhole and collapsing it, preventing a causality loop. The Enterprise crew never realized what happened. 🤔🤣

Damn. 90s sci-fi was far better in explaining facism than the stuff today. Maybe it was because it was not on the doorstep?
#babylon5 #facism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPoR0p2ZSXs

Damn. 90s sci-fi was far better in explaining facism than the stuff today. Maybe it was because it was not on the doorstep?
#babylon5 #facism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPoR0p2ZSXs

Damn. 90s sci-fi was far better in explaining facism than the stuff today. Maybe it was because it was not on the doorstep?
#babylon5 #facism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPoR0p2ZSXs

Damn. 90s sci-fi was far better in explaining facism than the stuff today. Maybe it was because it was not on the doorstep?
#babylon5 #facism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPoR0p2ZSXs

Damn. 90s sci-fi was far better in explaining facism than the stuff today. Maybe it was because it was not on the doorstep?
#babylon5 #facism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPoR0p2ZSXs

Babylon 5 Reunion Panel
Bruce Boxleitner & Claudia Christian
(4/26/26) | Vermont Sci-Fi Expo

Saturday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXLW_B8brKU

Sunday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcwSXFVu1ew

#babylon5

Babylon 5 Reunion Panel
Bruce Boxleitner & Claudia Christian
(4/26/26) | Vermont Sci-Fi Expo

Saturday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXLW_B8brKU

Sunday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcwSXFVu1ew

#babylon5

Babylon 5 Reunion Panel
Bruce Boxleitner & Claudia Christian
(4/26/26) | Vermont Sci-Fi Expo

Saturday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXLW_B8brKU

Sunday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcwSXFVu1ew

#babylon5

Babylon 5 Reunion Panel
Bruce Boxleitner & Claudia Christian
(4/26/26) | Vermont Sci-Fi Expo

Saturday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXLW_B8brKU

Sunday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcwSXFVu1ew

#babylon5

Babylon 5 Reunion Panel
Bruce Boxleitner & Claudia Christian
(4/26/26) | Vermont Sci-Fi Expo

Saturday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXLW_B8brKU

Sunday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcwSXFVu1ew

#babylon5

Babylon 5 Reunion Panel - Bruce Boxleitner & Claudia Christian (4/26/26) | Vermont Sci-Fi Expo Saturday www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXLW... Sunday www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcwS... #babylon5

There, just finished my 7th watching of Stargate SG-1. The show is holding up pretty well, and as fun the 7th time as it was the 1st time.

It's also now tied with Star Trek Deep Space Nine as my second most watched series. The first is still Babylon 5, which I've now watched 9 times.

It appears I don't really need anyone to make new TV series. I have all I need on Bluray. 😁

#TV #SciFi #Stargate #StarTrek #Babylon5

There, just finished my 7th watching of Stargate SG-1. The show is holding up pretty well, and as fun the 7th time as it was the 1st time.

It's also now tied with Star Trek Deep Space Nine as my second most watched series. The first is still Babylon 5, which I've now watched 9 times.

It appears I don't really need anyone to make new TV series. I have all I need on Bluray. 😁

#TV #SciFi #Stargate #StarTrek #Babylon5

There, just finished my 7th watching of Stargate SG-1. The show is holding up pretty well, and as fun the 7th time as it was the 1st time.

It's also now tied with Star Trek Deep Space Nine as my second most watched series. The first is still Babylon 5, which I've now watched 9 times.

It appears I don't really need anyone to make new TV series. I have all I need on Bluray. 😁

#TV #SciFi #Stargate #StarTrek #Babylon5

There, just finished my 7th watching of Stargate SG-1. The show is holding up pretty well, and as fun the 7th time as it was the 1st time.

It's also now tied with Star Trek Deep Space Nine as my second most watched series. The first is still Babylon 5, which I've now watched 9 times.

It appears I don't really need anyone to make new TV series. I have all I need on Bluray. 😁

#TV #SciFi #Stargate #StarTrek #Babylon5

There, just finished my 7th watching of Stargate SG-1. The show is holding up pretty well, and as fun the 7th time as it was the 1st time.

It's also now tied with Star Trek Deep Space Nine as my second most watched series. The first is still Babylon 5, which I've now watched 9 times.

It appears I don't really need anyone to make new TV series. I have all I need on Bluray. 😁

#TV #SciFi #Stargate #StarTrek #Babylon5

@liferstate
Needless to say, I will have to revisit your question after finishing Twin Peaks, and probably also after getting one of those conspiracy bulletin boards with the string everywhere, and probably also after making Venn diagrams of #Babylon5 and #TwinPeaks residents by characteristic.

Further questions to also investigate include, "Is John Sheridan the reincarnation of Dale Cooper?" and "Who would have punched Agent Rosenfield sooner, Sheriff Truman or Ivanova?"

3/3

@liferstate
Needless to say, I will have to revisit your question after finishing Twin Peaks, and probably also after getting one of those conspiracy bulletin boards with the string everywhere, and probably also after making Venn diagrams of #Babylon5 and #TwinPeaks residents by characteristic.

Further questions to also investigate include, "Is John Sheridan the reincarnation of Dale Cooper?" and "Who would have punched Agent Rosenfield sooner, Sheriff Truman or Ivanova?"

3/3

@liferstate
Needless to say, I will have to revisit your question after finishing Twin Peaks, and probably also after getting one of those conspiracy bulletin boards with the string everywhere, and probably also after making Venn diagrams of #Babylon5 and #TwinPeaks residents by characteristic.

Further questions to also investigate include, "Is John Sheridan the reincarnation of Dale Cooper?" and "Who would have punched Agent Rosenfield sooner, Sheriff Truman or Ivanova?"

3/3

@liferstate
Needless to say, I will have to revisit your question after finishing Twin Peaks, and probably also after getting one of those conspiracy bulletin boards with the string everywhere, and probably also after making Venn diagrams of #Babylon5 and #TwinPeaks residents by characteristic.

Further questions to also investigate include, "Is John Sheridan the reincarnation of Dale Cooper?" and "Who would have punched Agent Rosenfield sooner, Sheriff Truman or Ivanova?"

3/3

@liferstate
Needless to say, I will have to revisit your question after finishing Twin Peaks, and probably also after getting one of those conspiracy bulletin boards with the string everywhere, and probably also after making Venn diagrams of #Babylon5 and #TwinPeaks residents by characteristic.

Further questions to also investigate include, "Is John Sheridan the reincarnation of Dale Cooper?" and "Who would have punched Agent Rosenfield sooner, Sheriff Truman or Ivanova?"

3/3

my new crossover headcanon is that #Babylon5 and #TwinPeaks take place in the same universe, just hundreds of years apart.

my new crossover headcanon is that #Babylon5 and #TwinPeaks take place in the same universe, just hundreds of years apart.

my new crossover headcanon is that #Babylon5 and #TwinPeaks take place in the same universe, just hundreds of years apart.

my new crossover headcanon is that #Babylon5 and #TwinPeaks take place in the same universe, just hundreds of years apart.

my new crossover headcanon is that #Babylon5 and #TwinPeaks take place in the same universe, just hundreds of years apart.

My wife works with a Bo and Rick and every time she mentions them, I just hear Bo and Mack. I love A View from the Gallery.

#Babylon5

Why does no one ever speak of the curse of Bablyon 5? Of 17 regular cast members, 7, or 41% are dead. Many of them died far too young.

Compare this to the top 16 cast members of Deep Space Nine, and you see only three deceased cast, or 19%

I think I'd rather be a drummer for Spinal Tap.

#sci #babylon5

Serien, die ich echt sehr gerne noch mal zum ersten Mal sehen würde, wären #Babylon5 #DS9 #theShield #SonsofAnarchy #Buffy Und ihr?

Serien, die ich echt sehr gerne noch mal zum ersten Mal sehen würde, wären #Babylon5 #DS9 #theShield #SonsofAnarchy #Buffy Und ihr?

Serien, die ich echt sehr gerne noch mal zum ersten Mal sehen würde, wären #Babylon5 #DS9 #theShield #SonsofAnarchy #Buffy Und ihr?

Serien, die ich echt sehr gerne noch mal zum ersten Mal sehen würde, wären #Babylon5 #DS9 #theShield #SonsofAnarchy #Buffy Und ihr?

I really liked this post from #JMS (creator of #Babylon5 and many other things) on why #AI isn't a threat to good story writers:

https://jmichaelstraczynski.substack.com/p/silence-where-a-story-might-have

He argues that LLMs lack the human experiences needed to write compelling and novel stories, and explains why.

I'd take issue with one point:

> But not a heck of a lot about whether it has an unconscious.
> Because the answer is immediately self-evident: no. There is only the data it has scraped, and the information programmed and designed by others.

I'd argue that LLM AIs *do* have an unconscious -- in fact they are arguably almost entirely unconscious and every interaction with an LLM gives you a window into its unconscious and the associated biases.

However, their unconscious is very much unlike a human unconscious. It isn't filled with first-hand experiences of a life lived and books read. It is filled instead with what it has learned from reading a large corpus of materials. It is much closer to an alien in this regards -- one with no lived experiences and that has learned only about humanity and our world from reading transmissions from Earth.

I do think that some year it could be *possible* to make an AI that could do storytelling, but by infusing it with a lifetime of human experiences across a range of senses. However, this quickly turns into an ethical dilemma worthy of a serialized scifi story -- any AI that *could* do good enough storytelling would also be close enough to being a Person and sentient that having it run in a loop of living for hours at a time to spit out some story and then to have its self obliterated and reset would be highly unethical.

I really liked this post from #JMS (creator of #Babylon5 and many other things) on why #AI isn't a threat to good story writers:

https://jmichaelstraczynski.substack.com/p/silence-where-a-story-might-have

He argues that LLMs lack the human experiences needed to write compelling and novel stories, and explains why.

I'd take issue with one point:

> But not a heck of a lot about whether it has an unconscious.
> Because the answer is immediately self-evident: no. There is only the data it has scraped, and the information programmed and designed by others.

I'd argue that LLM AIs *do* have an unconscious -- in fact they are arguably almost entirely unconscious and every interaction with an LLM gives you a window into its unconscious and the associated biases.

However, their unconscious is very much unlike a human unconscious. It isn't filled with first-hand experiences of a life lived and books read. It is filled instead with what it has learned from reading a large corpus of materials. It is much closer to an alien in this regards -- one with no lived experiences and that has learned only about humanity and our world from reading transmissions from Earth.

I do think that some year it could be *possible* to make an AI that could do storytelling, but by infusing it with a lifetime of human experiences across a range of senses. However, this quickly turns into an ethical dilemma worthy of a serialized scifi story -- any AI that *could* do good enough storytelling would also be close enough to being a Person and sentient that having it run in a loop of living for hours at a time to spit out some story and then to have its self obliterated and reset would be highly unethical.

I really liked this post from #JMS (creator of #Babylon5 and many other things) on why #AI isn't a threat to good story writers:

https://jmichaelstraczynski.substack.com/p/silence-where-a-story-might-have

He argues that LLMs lack the human experiences needed to write compelling and novel stories, and explains why.

I'd take issue with one point:

> But not a heck of a lot about whether it has an unconscious.
> Because the answer is immediately self-evident: no. There is only the data it has scraped, and the information programmed and designed by others.

I'd argue that LLM AIs *do* have an unconscious -- in fact they are arguably almost entirely unconscious and every interaction with an LLM gives you a window into its unconscious and the associated biases.

However, their unconscious is very much unlike a human unconscious. It isn't filled with first-hand experiences of a life lived and books read. It is filled instead with what it has learned from reading a large corpus of materials. It is much closer to an alien in this regards -- one with no lived experiences and that has learned only about humanity and our world from reading transmissions from Earth.

I do think that some year it could be *possible* to make an AI that could do storytelling, but by infusing it with a lifetime of human experiences across a range of senses. However, this quickly turns into an ethical dilemma worthy of a serialized scifi story -- any AI that *could* do good enough storytelling would also be close enough to being a Person and sentient that having it run in a loop of living for hours at a time to spit out some story and then to have its self obliterated and reset would be highly unethical.

I really liked this post from #JMS (creator of #Babylon5 and many other things) on why #AI isn't a threat to good story writers:

https://jmichaelstraczynski.substack.com/p/silence-where-a-story-might-have

He argues that LLMs lack the human experiences needed to write compelling and novel stories, and explains why.

I'd take issue with one point:

> But not a heck of a lot about whether it has an unconscious.
> Because the answer is immediately self-evident: no. There is only the data it has scraped, and the information programmed and designed by others.

I'd argue that LLM AIs *do* have an unconscious -- in fact they are arguably almost entirely unconscious and every interaction with an LLM gives you a window into its unconscious and the associated biases.

However, their unconscious is very much unlike a human unconscious. It isn't filled with first-hand experiences of a life lived and books read. It is filled instead with what it has learned from reading a large corpus of materials. It is much closer to an alien in this regards -- one with no lived experiences and that has learned only about humanity and our world from reading transmissions from Earth.

I do think that some year it could be *possible* to make an AI that could do storytelling, but by infusing it with a lifetime of human experiences across a range of senses. However, this quickly turns into an ethical dilemma worthy of a serialized scifi story -- any AI that *could* do good enough storytelling would also be close enough to being a Person and sentient that having it run in a loop of living for hours at a time to spit out some story and then to have its self obliterated and reset would be highly unethical.

I really liked this post from #JMS (creator of #Babylon5 and many other things) on why #AI isn't a threat to good story writers:

https://jmichaelstraczynski.substack.com/p/silence-where-a-story-might-have

He argues that LLMs lack the human experiences needed to write compelling and novel stories, and explains why.

I'd take issue with one point:

> But not a heck of a lot about whether it has an unconscious.
> Because the answer is immediately self-evident: no. There is only the data it has scraped, and the information programmed and designed by others.

I'd argue that LLM AIs *do* have an unconscious -- in fact they are arguably almost entirely unconscious and every interaction with an LLM gives you a window into its unconscious and the associated biases.

However, their unconscious is very much unlike a human unconscious. It isn't filled with first-hand experiences of a life lived and books read. It is filled instead with what it has learned from reading a large corpus of materials. It is much closer to an alien in this regards -- one with no lived experiences and that has learned only about humanity and our world from reading transmissions from Earth.

I do think that some year it could be *possible* to make an AI that could do storytelling, but by infusing it with a lifetime of human experiences across a range of senses. However, this quickly turns into an ethical dilemma worthy of a serialized scifi story -- any AI that *could* do good enough storytelling would also be close enough to being a Person and sentient that having it run in a loop of living for hours at a time to spit out some story and then to have its self obliterated and reset would be highly unethical.

Hi Mastodon

I'm more active on the admittedly bug-ridden app UpScrolled. I have a "final" B5 Proposal: namely a #whatif Sinclair was commander for five years but Sheridan is in it also. I don't know if it's sufficiently different enough to warrant being a reboot ; of course I do have other ideas : namely what if the appearance of the Minbari is what ends the Dilgar War and , later, the commander of #Babylon5 has to seek these mysterious aliens out and enlist their aid against the Shadows (?)

Hi Mastodon

I'm more active on the admittedly bug-ridden app UpScrolled. I have a "final" B5 Proposal: namely a #whatif Sinclair was commander for five years but Sheridan is in it also. I don't know if it's sufficiently different enough to warrant being a reboot ; of course I do have other ideas : namely what if the appearance of the Minbari is what ends the Dilgar War and , later, the commander of #Babylon5 has to seek these mysterious aliens out and enlist their aid against the Shadows (?)

I was excited to join Baz & Luke on this episode of #ADreamGivenForm talking "And The Rock Cried Out No Hiding Place" from season 3 of #Babylon5. Bonus: I get to sing! #nerdlyfe https://open.spotify.com/episode/5NWcfd0Qgoll0hj2mvq3D3?si=3a974d2e48a548df

I was excited to join Baz & Luke on this episode of #ADreamGivenForm talking "And The Rock Cried Out No Hiding Place" from season 3 of #Babylon5. Bonus: I get to sing! #nerdlyfe https://open.spotify.com/episode/5NWcfd0Qgoll0hj2mvq3D3?si=3a974d2e48a548df

#Babylon5 damn me, Lwaxana Troi is the late Centauri Emperor's third wife!

#Babylon5 damn me, Lwaxana Troi is the late Centauri Emperor's third wife!