From: jmsatb5@aol.com (Jms at B5)
Subject: Re: JMS: Last 2 weeks...
To: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
Date: 8/19/1993 3:56:00 PM
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Re: the skin tab/Kosh's hand/encounter suit question...one of the
reasons I can't wait for the series to get on the air is so that we can
make one thing clear, once and for all: it is NOT an error, not a plot
hole, it is a plot POINT. It is a question that our *characters* will
be asking each other. How can this be? This will come up more than once,
starting with "The Parliament of Dreams" episode.
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From: jmsatb5@aol.com (Jms at B5)
Subject: Re: JMS: Last 2 weeks...
To: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
Date: 8/19/1993 4:10:00 PM
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The point you raise is absolutely accurate. When it comes to making
up names for civilizations, or characters, one goes for the *sound* of the
name or the sense of the name. "Minbar" is one of those terms whose
meaning, unlike Yangs and Coms (Yanks and Commies) is NOT well known; ask
any 100 people on the street, and it's *very* unlikely that ANY of them
would know what a minbar is. Because the Minbari are very spiritual (well,
half of them, anyway), and because I always liked the *sound* of the word
"minbar," that became the name. It has no dead-on meaning, there is no
translation, it doesn't describe what they are. I don't think it's as
blunt as the examples cited, because it's a *very* obscure term; in all
this time, only that ONE person recognized its origins.
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