And the Sky Full of Stars

From The Great Machine

Episode Title: And the Sky Full of Stars
Episode Number: S1E08
Original Air Date: March 16, 1994
DVD Release Date: November 5, 2002
Writer: J. Michael Straczynski
Director: Janet Greek
Guest Stars: Judson Scott, Christopher Neame, Jim Youngs, Justin Williams

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2 Synopsis
- 2.1 Main Plot
3 Characters
- 3.1 Season 1 Cast

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What happened when Sinclair blacked out during the Battle of the Line? The answer is so vital that an Earth supremacist group sends two covert Knights to cyberlock Sinclair into a virtual reality interrogation.

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The blackmail of a security guard for his gambling debts allows two shady characters aboard the station with their equipment, which requires a lot of power and is intended for a specific subject - Commander Sinclair.

The commander is kidnapped and wired into a virutal-reality cybernet, through which he is interrogated by an unknown but determined adversary whose purpose is to uncover memories of what happened when Sinclair's ship went missing for the 24 hours prior to the Minbari Surrender in the final battle (Battle of the Line) of the Earth-Minbari War.

Sinclair resists his opponent's attempts to get into his mind, but finally remembers events that have been blocked from his memory for nearly a decade: the destruction of his entire squadron, his capture by a Minbari battle cruiser, torture, and a mysterious encounter with nine figures cloaked in grey, one of whom he suddenly remembers well - Delenn. The memory could cost Sinclair his life. (Attrib: B5 LogBook [1])

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Sinclair is abducted.
Ivanova and Garibaldi scramble to connect events and find Sinclair.
At the end of the Earth-Minbari War, Jeffrey Sinclair blacked out for 24 hours after attempting to ram a Minbari warcruiser with his crippled Starfury.