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This is from Babylon 5 Books:
NOTE FROM CAPTAIN JACLYN
Since fans found our highlight about the Maintenance Worker illuminating, I wanted to share something that B5 Books Senior Editor Jason Davis told me about recently regarding the Babylon 5 Encyclopedia entry for Inesval. For reference here's the entry:
INESVAL
A Worker Caste Minbari from the F'tach Islands who, after the Earth-Minbari War, lived on Earth with his merchant father and grew to appreciate Earth culture. In 2259, Inesval was working as a welder in Yedor where he met Ambassador Jeffrey Sinclair. Inesval welded the ambassador's bed so that it remained in the horizontal position customary for Humans, and later joined the Anla-shok when Sinclair opened admission to non-Warrior Caste Minbari.
Jason Davis told me that he recently discovered something about this storyline while researching his Babylon 5 Preservation Project Kickstarter (that ends this Saturday at noon. https://kck.st/2E0Yc4u)
FROM JASON DAVIS
BABYLON 5 ignores the Minbari Worker Caste almost as completely as the Religious and Warrior Castes did. Only when Delenn established the new Grey Council in "Moments of Transition" were Worker Caste Minbari even named on screen.
This matter was slightly redressed in the BABYLON 5 novels, specifically Kathryn M. Drennan's TO DREAM IN THE CITY OF SORROWS, which introduced Inesval.
While Inesval played a small part in the story of Jeffrey Sinclair's life on Minbar as leader of the Rangers, he originally played a much larger role, anchoring a major subplot in the novel that was cut due to the book running over Dell's designated page count. (You may have noticed that TO DREAM IN THE CITY OF SORROWS is significantly larger than the other eight books from Dell.)
Jason told me he's excited to explore the role Inesval played in the deleted subplot when he interviews Kathryn M. Drennan
as part of the PRESERVATION PROJECT.
If you find lost "storylines" interesting, you will want to be a part Jason's Kickstarter Project that ends this Saturday at noon Pacific.
This worthy project has been given a "thumbs up" by J. Michael Straczynski. https://kck.st/2E0Yc4u
You can see many of the Dell Babylon 5 paperbacks on Amazon.
Check it out
This is from Babylon 5 Books:
NOTE FROM CAPTAIN JACLYN
Since fans found our highlight about the Maintenance Worker illuminating, I wanted to share something that B5 Books Senior Editor Jason Davis told me about recently regarding the Babylon 5 Encyclopedia entry for Inesval. For reference here's the entry:
INESVAL
A Worker Caste Minbari from the F'tach Islands who, after the Earth-Minbari War, lived on Earth with his merchant father and grew to appreciate Earth culture. In 2259, Inesval was working as a welder in Yedor where he met Ambassador Jeffrey Sinclair. Inesval welded the ambassador's bed so that it remained in the horizontal position customary for Humans, and later joined the Anla-shok when Sinclair opened admission to non-Warrior Caste Minbari.
Jason Davis told me that he recently discovered something about this storyline while researching his Babylon 5 Preservation Project Kickstarter (that ends this Saturday at noon. https://kck.st/2E0Yc4u)
FROM JASON DAVIS
BABYLON 5 ignores the Minbari Worker Caste almost as completely as the Religious and Warrior Castes did. Only when Delenn established the new Grey Council in "Moments of Transition" were Worker Caste Minbari even named on screen.
This matter was slightly redressed in the BABYLON 5 novels, specifically Kathryn M. Drennan's TO DREAM IN THE CITY OF SORROWS, which introduced Inesval.
While Inesval played a small part in the story of Jeffrey Sinclair's life on Minbar as leader of the Rangers, he originally played a much larger role, anchoring a major subplot in the novel that was cut due to the book running over Dell's designated page count. (You may have noticed that TO DREAM IN THE CITY OF SORROWS is significantly larger than the other eight books from Dell.)
Jason told me he's excited to explore the role Inesval played in the deleted subplot when he interviews Kathryn M. Drennan
as part of the PRESERVATION PROJECT.
If you find lost "storylines" interesting, you will want to be a part Jason's Kickstarter Project that ends this Saturday at noon Pacific.
This worthy project has been given a "thumbs up" by J. Michael Straczynski. https://kck.st/2E0Yc4u
You can see many of the Dell Babylon 5 paperbacks on Amazon.
Check it out
