Talk:John Sheridan
From The Great Machine
[edit] Method of Display
[edit] How?
- Get yo' self onto IRC! In fact, everyone get onto IRC. I've set up a java client to make things easy and always available, but if you don't want to use that, you can use the below information:
- Babcom
- Servers: boshaus.dyndns.org, irc.flyingtemple.com
- Room: #Firstones
- I see... looks like I did it again, huh? Sorry about that. However, I do not use any of the aforementioned messengers, and my ISP gets rather mad whenever I use IRC, so I'm afraid direct communication with me will be rather difficult. -- MikhailM
- I see... looks like I did it again, huh? Sorry about that. However, I do not use any of the aforementioned messengers, and my ISP gets rather mad whenever I use IRC, so I'm afraid direct communication with me will be rather difficult. -- MikhailM
NP Mik. We're all trying to get it right. Whatever you can do. -- IS
- NO! I will not get on IRC Sanfam :p
- P.S. - I just slapped you in #firstones, but as usual you didn't respond :) --RC
[edit] Logic of determining the timelime
[edit] The Black Star
In S2E1 (Points of Departure), Captain Sheridan made a comment to Lt. Commander Ivanova, stating that his battle with the Black Star "...was 12 years ago..." -- 12 years before 2259, when he assumed command of B5, and which then places his command of the EAS Lexington in 2247-48. In In the Beginning, Lt. General Lefcourt's comments fuel this thesis as he tries to assign Sheridan to the EAS Prometheus as it heads for the first time towards Minbari space...
[edit] Placing the Story, In the Beginning in context
Londo's telling of the story in In the Beginning, from the final scene, occurs in/around S3E16/17 War Without End, titularly 2260, but in one of Sheridan's jumps from there to the future.
[edit] Placing the Story, In the Beginning in real time
In S3E17 War Without End, Part 2, Emperor Mollari's dietribe against the time-travelling Sheridan was that "17 years have past since you won your little war (2261 the Shadow War, S4E6 Into the Fire)," or, placing Londo's story and Sheridan's time-hop in 2278.
[edit] Placing the beginning of the saga from In the Beginning
In In the Beginning, Londo tells the children that his story starts "35 of their years ago," or 2278-35=2243 -- This is the only sequence that doesn't match with the rest of the timeline. (...unless we could, very weakly, infer that Sheridan was first assigned to the EAS Lexington in 2243. But, that doesn't hold much water as Sheridan is shown as a "fast-burner;" and four years as a Lt. Commander would give the lie to that thought...)
[edit] Placing the first shots of the Earth-Minbari War
In S3E13, A Late Delivery from Avalon, there's a reference to when the EAS Prometheus fired the first shots of the Earth-Minbari War: Dr. Franklin mentions that the opening volley was "15 years ago, today..." If S3 is in 2260, that places the beginning of the war in late 2245.
[edit] Placing the founding of B5, and the end of the Earth-Minbari War
From the S1 Opening Credits monologue, Commander Sinclair says: "10 years after the Earth-Minbari War..." IF S1 begins in 2258, that places the end of the Earth-Minbari War and the Battle of the Line in 2248.
[edit] Conclusions
That'd be about right, given that most references to the war show its duration as roughly 3 years, and would then place Sheridan's service aboard the EAS Lexington from 2245-2248, and his battle with the Black Star likely in late 2247, well ahead of the Battle of the Line, and in keeping with his comments to Ivanova in Points of Departure.
