History Recap / BabylonFiveS04E22TheDeconstructionOfFallingStars

* {{Deconstruction}}: Some of the main cast, or their public images at least, is "deconstructed" by people in the future. Most of them, however, are more interested in pushing their own political agendas and manipulate facts to conform to them.

* ArtisticLicenseAstronomy: Sol isn't the kind of star that can go nova, and it certainly wouldn't be a [[ScifiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale mere million years from now]]. Background material[=/=]WordOfGod states this was artificially induced by enemies opening jump points inside the sun to siphon off its mass.

* ShoutOut: The anti-[=ISA=] faction of 2762 has elements of ''[[Literature/NineteenEightyFour 1984]]'', especially NewSpeak, and the FeudalFuture[=/=]TheDungAges Earth of 3262 calls to mind ''Literature/ACanticleForLeibowitz''. There's also something of an in-universe example in the form of the future human's Vorlon-inspired encounter suit.

* SufficientlyAdvancedAlien: Humans have evolved into this. They also wear encounter suits like their long-vanished forebears the Vorlons. WordOfGod establishes that the Minbari have also become this, while the Narn and Centauri haven't

* BaldOfAwesome: The human viewing all the recording in the final FlashForward. Leit

* {{Foreshadowing}}: This episode shows a short clip of an event [[Recap/BabylonFiveS05E11PhoenixRising from midway through the fifth season]], but without any context, showing Mr. Garibaldi being held at gunpoint [[spoiler: and evidently being executed.]]

->What matters is what we did here, together. In a hundred years it won't matter who we were. They probably won't even remember.

* BaldOfAwesome: The human viewing all the recording in the final FlashForward

* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: Barbara Tashaki and William Exeter accuse the ISA of doing this with Sheridan. By the time following the Great Burn Sheridan and his companions have become religious figures integrated into Christian mythology
* EvilutionaryBiologist[=/=]MadScientist: Daniel attempts to cast Dr. Franklin as this, just like [[Recap/BabylonFiveS04E08TheIllusionOfTruth Dan Randall did]] during the first Earth Alliance Civil War.

* CrapsackWorld: Post-Great Burning Earth

* ShoutOut: The separatist faction of 2762 has elements of ''[[Literature/NineteenEightyFour 1984]]'', especially NewSpeak, and the FeudalFuture[=/=]TheDungAges Earth of 3262 calls to mind ''Literature/ACanticleForLeibowitz''. There's also something of an in-universe example in the form of the future human's Vorlon-inspired encounter suit.

* SufficientlyAdvancedAlien: Humans have evolved into this. They also wear encounter suits like their long-vanished forebears the Vorlons.

* GenreBlind: The Seperatist "historian" who leaves a recreation of Micheal Garibaldi running unhindered on their computer system. He spends his time figuring out how the computer system works, then [[SpannerInTheWorks sends a message warning the Seperatists' targets of the impending attack.]]

* SufficientlyAdvancedAlien: Humans have evolved into this. They also wear encounter suits like their long-vanished forebears the Vorlons.
* MeanwhileInTheFuture: The entire episode turns out to be this.

!This episode contains examples of:

* ShoutOut: The separatist faction of 2762 has elements of ''[[Literature/NineteenEightyFour 1984]]'', especially NewSpeak, and the FeudalFuture[=/=]TheDungAges Earth of 3262 calls to mind ''ACanticleForLeibowitz''. There's also something of an in-universe example in the form of the future human's Vorlon-inspired encounter suit.

* ShoutOut: The separatist culture of 2762 has elements of ''[[Literature/NineteenEightyFour 1984]]'', especially NewSpeak, and the FeudalFuture Earth of 3262 calls to mind ''ACanticleForLeibowitz''. There's also something of an in-universe example in the form of the future human's Vorlon-inspired encounter suit.

* ShoutOut: The separatist culture of 2762 has elements of ''[[NineteenEightyFour 1984]]'', especially NewSpeak, and the FeudalFuture Earth of 3262 calls to mind ''ACanticleForLeibowitz''. There's also something of an in-universe example in the form of the future human's Vorlon-inspired encounter suit.

* MeanwhileInTheFuture: The entire episode turns out to be this.

* ArtisticLicenseAstronomy: Sol isn't the kind of star that can go nova, and it certainly wouldn't be a [[ScifiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale mere million years from now]]. Background material[=/=]WordOfGod states this was artificially induced by enemies opening jumpgates inside the sun to siphon off its mass.

* ArtisticLicenseAstronomy: Sol isn't the kind of star that can go nova, and it certainly wouldn't be a [[ScifiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale mere million years from now]]. Background material[=/=]WordOfGod states this was artificially induced.

* ShoutOut: The separatist culture of 2762 has elements of ''[[NineteenEightyFour 1984]]'', especially NewSpeak, and the FeudalFuture Earth of 3262 calls to mind ''ACanticleForLeibowitz''. There's also something of an in-universe ShoutOut in the form of the future human's Vorlon-inspired encounter suit.

* EndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: Future humans, or rather their descendants, have left Earth for another world before Sol goes nova.

* ArtisticLicenseAstronomy: Sol isn't the kind of star that can go nova, and it certainly wouldn't be a [[ScifiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale mere million years from now]].

* BadFuture: In 500 years Earth will apparently start another civil war at will reduce them to a medieval-esqu society.
* EndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: Future humans, or rather their descendants, have left earth for another world before Sol goes nova.
* SufficientlyAdvancedAlien: Humans have evolved into this.
* MeanwhileInTheFuture: The entire episode turns out to be this.

* ArtisticLicenseAstronomy: Sol isn't the kind of star that can go nova, and it certainly wouln't be a [[ScifiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale mere million years from now]].

* ArtisticLicenseAstronomy: Sol isn't the kind of star that can go nova, and it ctainly wouln't be a [[ScifiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale mere million years from now]].