yawnmoth wrote:
>
>>From http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/countries/master/guide/021.html>:
>
>> You will see the healing machine from "Quality" once
more. Part of the reason for that story
>> was to set up something within the B5 universe that will come in
handy a long time later (but I'm
>> *not* going to have it lying around indefinitely; it would cause
lots of long-term complications).
>
>> (Some TV shows foreshadow/set-up stuff an act or two ahead of
time; we do setups a full *year*
>> ahead....)
>
> Do we know if it was always intended to be used on Ivanova by Marcus,
> or was there some other plan for it that got scrapped along the way?

To me the healing machine was an inherent part of the way bodies and
souls work in the Babylon 5 universe.  It falls out naturally from one
of the movies and a couple of the episodes in the first season.

Deathstalker, Soul Hunter, the Kosh comment "You are not yet ready for
immortality", The River of Souls, the First One species no longer
having bodies.  The machine fits in that whole spectrum to me.  To me it
was no more plot device set up than Kosh's starship registering with
life signs.
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