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In the memorable Babylon 5 episode "War Without End" (for which spoiler alert but I will, like the character who sings this song, try to keep them vague), the alien Zathras is assigned by Cmdr. Sinclair to a time travel mission in which he is taken prisoner by Sinclair at an earlier point in the timeline. To avoid, well, spoilers, at first all Zathras will say to the earlier Sinclair is "Not the One!"

lyrics by Benjamin Newman

ttto: "Still the One" by Johanna Hall and John Hall

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This one was done just for the pun at first, but it ended up as a touching (I think) crossover fanfic mashup.

It will make more sense if you've seen Babylon 5 and read A Fire Upon the Deep: In each story arc, at a climactic moment (the turning point in the middle of the story in one case, the denoument in the other), one of the many protagonists in the ensemble cast chooses to fulfill their destined role in the battle against an ancient trans-human evil, bidding their companions a fond farewell and stepping into a Transcendent machine, never to return in the same form.

In B5 the character is (or will become) the legendary hero Valen, while in aFutD some of the companions are members of the species known to the reader as Tines, a race of wolf-like creatures with hive-minds where several individual bodies come together to be one individual person. Valen... Tines... you get where this is going.

lyrics by Benjamin Newman

ttto: "To My Valentine" by S.J. Tucker

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Almost nothing in "The Rainbow Connection" needed to be changed to make it about Babylon 5. Just replace "rainbow" with "Vorlon" throughout and every line falls into place.

Really, that's it.

lyrics and music by Paul Williams and Kenneth Ascher, adapted by Benjamin Newman

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I like to imagine A Wrinkle in Time and Babylon 5 taking place in the same universe — the three Mrs. W's are clearly Vorlons, and after that other things fall into place.

lyrics and music by Benjamin Newman

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A song for Mr. Morden — like the symbol of the raven in "I Go Like the Raven", the Shadows (or their ships) screaming across the "dark and dervish sky" herald a wily trickster with a mysterious past and unknown powers.

Dave & Tracy's original song is as notable for its virtuosic instrumental breaks as for its haunting lyrics, and this new recording of my parody finally features a most appropriate theme in that role.

lyrics by Benjamin Newman

ttto: "I Go Like the Raven" by Dave Carter

and featuring the main title theme from Babylon 5 by Christopher Franke

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The Psi-Cop's side of the story of "Annie's Luck" by Cat Faber.

lyrics by Benjamin Newman

ttto: "Annie's Luck" by Cat Faber

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Not the One

To My Valen/Tines

The Vorlon Connection

A Wrinkle in Hyperspace

I Go Like the Shadows

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