Talk:Jeffrey Sinclair

message: Being as they are the same person, and Valen appears as himself for about 10 seconds, a separate article seems frivolous. Phil Sandifer 03:07, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: of course, agree--141.140.152.91 21:01, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Seems like a rather silly idea, I have to say.  Should we delete Darth Vader and just redirect that to Anakin Skywalker as well? Tarc 15:43, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Darth Vader had a substantial impact and role as a villan in three films, Valen had about ten seconds of screen time, and other then that was refered to as a Mimbari religous figure in abesentia (SP?) That said, merging Anakin and Vader into a single article certainly isn't completly unreasonable, as ideas go. They are the same character, before and after a traumatic event. But, yeah, seriously Valen should probably be merged with Sinclair. The only reason not to would be because of fear of spoilers. "Who's this Valen figure they're talking about, and why does wiki point me at Sinclair!?" (StarkeRealm 18:23, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  This seems to be more about the Valen article than this one, so I've made a case for a useful "Valen" article at the existing Talk:Valen#On spoilers and formatting discussion. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 21:29, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Separate article? 

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message: Perhaps a silly question, but has it ever been addressed by JMS or others whether Valen could *only* be Sinclair ?
Consider the situation at the Battle Of The Line: essentially the Grey Council pick a random human to study, which just happens to be Sinclair...
What would have happened if - purely by chance - they had picked a different pilot and Sinclair had been killed in the battle ? Would that mean that Valen had - paradoxically - ceased to exist ? Or would *whichever human pilot they randomly selected* eventually go back in time and become Valen ?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.25.122.215 (talk) 11:44, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Not a silly question at all, but one that cuts right to the heart of a lot of time-travel SF.  While I don't think jms ever addressed it, to my interpretation, the death of Sinclair would cause a temporal paradox.  If Sinclair is killed at the Battle of the Line, he does not become Valen.  Without Valen to form the Grey Council, the Minbari descend into infighting and civil war, and never become the power that they were in 2245.  With weaker Minbari, the Earth-Minbari war doesn't happen, and Sinclair lives, though without the connection to the Minbari that makes him become Valen.  Schoop (talk) 20:23, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Did Valen *need* to be Sinclair and *only* Sinclair ?