Re:Anyone who has not seen season 5 do not read this
DuLt,
The last episode in the series proper (i.e. in sequential time) is, indeed, [i]Objects at Rest[/i].
The episode [i]Sleeping in Light [/i] takes place 20 years “after the action” (and I agree with HH that I wish it were possible to see it again for the first time, as it were). I have a thread on that topic somewhere down the line, but don’t read it until you have seen the ep. JMS noted on the usenet recently that he broke down a bit during the taping of his commentary for that episode on the season 5 DVD – you will have that to look forward to, as WB convinced him to leave that moment untouched (those who have seen the ep will know EXACTLY the moment Joe’s voice broke).
The episode [i]The Deconstruction of Falling Stars[/i] was filmed at the start of the fifth season in time to air as the final ep of the fourth season. It takes place anywhere from one to one million years in the future. That’s the ep where you see the “fully evolved” humans.
Something I did not know until recently that the “New earth” they are moving to in that ep is, apparently, the Vorlon home world. Hence Lyta’s comment that the VHW was closed “for a million years.” I wonder how the Vorlons knew?
I guess I should have seen it (Joe loving “prophecy” so much) but I didn’t. I though Lyta’s was a throw-away line, but maybe there is no such beastie in JMS’s writing!