Does the series touch on the Rangers work on Earth as shown in “The Deconstruction of Falling Stars?
” No, that part isn’t the crux of the Rangers series, because that takes place ‘way down the road, but monks have always been around on the show, starting with Brother Theo, so I imagine we’ll see them in future. • Yeah, the sequel and the fifth year could conceivably happen at the same time…or not…or one or the other…it’s utterly in flux. Totally fluxed up. • It would have an arc, yes, but not as rigorous as the one in B5; I’ve kind of done that now, and would like to try something different…I don’t like to try and walk in the same stream twice, to borrow a metaphor from Greek philosophy. • But you’ve already worked on non-arc shows. Well, basically, all there *is* are either arc shows or stand-alone shows (or maybe somewhat stand-alones with a slight thread running through them). My feeling for now is that I just don’t want to do the same thing twice in a row…and maybe find some new approaches along the way to the next project. You must understand how hideously difficult an
