Michael Gillman <100724.1646@compuserve.com> asks:
> How can this be?

She saw an *image* of Valen, not Valen in physical form.

jms

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What Delenn says, if we all go back to the episode in question,
that a Minbari appeared to her, when she was a child lost in the city
and wandered into the temple; a vision, telling her that "I will not
allow harm to come to my little ones here in my great house." (Note:
"my little ones" being a coy bit of foreshadowing to her being a child
of Valen, but never mind that for now.)

Obviously there were many drawings and pictures and records of
Valen, but most were destroyed in the Great War. And those that
survived have been, over a thousand years, idealized and distorted by
whichever caste is currently claiming him as theirs. (Valen refused to
belong to any one caste.)

Which, btw, is also what Delenn referred to in season one, when
she was lost and in fear of death, and she looked to Sinclair with
reverence and said, "I knew you would come for me."

jms

Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
> Just how far back DID Delenn know that Jeff Sinclair was Valen??

You'll find out in the TV movie.

And there's some measure of difference between what she *knew*
and what she *suspected*.

jms

Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
> The letter that Sinclair/Valen sent to Delenn from the
> past......did she get it just before the events of WWE, or did
> she have it for some time before that?

No, she got the letter at the time of WWE. Remember, though,
that she was at the Battle of the Line when Sinclair was scanned and
found to contain a Minbari soul...so that would be the basic start of
it.

jms

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You'll get some more on this in the prequel.

jms