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Tim Choate as "Zathras"

The fictional characters of Zathras, portrayed by actor Tim Choate, were a race of 10 aliens native to the planet "Epsilon 3" (which the station was in orbit around) who appeared on several episodes of the TV series Babylon 5. Image File history File links Information_icon. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Zathras. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Zathras. ... Tim Choate was an American actor who starred in a number of film and television roles on series such as Dragnet and Babylon 5. ... In popular fiction and conspiracy theories, life forms, especially intelligent life forms, that are of extraterrestrial origin, i. ... Babylon 5 is an epic American science fiction television series created, produced, and largely written by J. Michael Straczynski. ...

The oldest Zathras was the oldest living (110 years old) caretaker of the Great Machine, in the service of the mysterious and messianic 'The One' when first appearing. The Great Machine is an enormous technological marvel beneath the surface of the planet Epsilon III in Babylon 5. ...

Looking like a slightly shaggy, slightly hunchbacked human, Zathras was prone to deadpan delivery of somewhat cryptic, somewhat humorous, generally self-pitying statements ("Zathras is used to being beast of burden to other people's needs. Very sad life. Probably have very sad death. But, at least there is symmetry.") , patterned after J. Michael Straczynski's grandmother's uneasy grasp of English. Joseph Michael Straczynski (born July 17, 1954) is an award-winning American writer/producer of television series, novels, short stories, comic books, and radio dramas. ...

He also referred to himself in the third person, although sometimes instead of himself he was referring to his brothers, as the story mentions that Zathras is one of 10 different brothers whose names all sound nigh-indistinguishably like 'Zathras'. This fact is revealed by a younger brother of the first Zathras - the second Zathras to be seen - who only appeared in one episode. Grammatical person, in linguistics, is used for the grammatical categories a language uses to describe the relationship between the speaker and the persons or things she is talking about. ...

The first Zathras travelled 1000 years into the past on Babylon 4 with Jeffrey Sinclair, who (during the trip) transformed into the Minbari religious figure Valen in order to help the Minbari defeat the Shadows. The fate of the first Zathras is not known following the Minbaris' acceptance of Sinclair as Valen, although it is probably not good ("You take, Zathras die. You leave, Zathras die. Either way, it is bad for Zathras.") The Babylon 4 Station Babylon 4 (also known as B4) is a fictional space station from the television series Babylon 5. ... Jeffrey Sinclair is a fictional character in the television science fiction drama Babylon 5. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Michael OHare as Valen in Babylon 5 A Minbari not born of Minbari Valen is the fictional leader of the Minbari in the science fiction television show Babylon 5. ... The Shadows are an ancient alien species in the science fiction television series Babylon 5. ...