Babylon 5: the original plan

Many fans wonder what would have Babylon 5 looked like if Joseph Michael Strazynski had followed his original plan. On the Facebook page below, "Babylon 5: Some behind the scenes stuff", are the links to the most complete summary I've read so far:

https://www.facebook.com/B5Scrolls/posts/697100957044967:0

"SEASON 1:

* Pretty much exactly the same as the version of Season 1 we saw, though there’s no mention of Bester or Psicops.

SEASON 2:
* Commander Sinclair is still in charge of the station
* His Fiance, Catherine Sakai, continues to be a major recurring character on the show
* There’s no Captain Sheridan
* It is revealed (Presumably about 6 or 7 episodes in to the season) that the Minbari are gradually going infertile and dying out, and have been for about 2000 years. It has been prophesied that there is one who will come who will allow them to regain their vitality and renew their species. A Minbari must mate with this person, and their child will be the savior.
* Sinclair was identified as the savior at the battle of the line.
* Delenn specifically became human(ish) to mate with him, but he’s still hot and heavy with Sakai, so how can this happen?
* The Warrior Caste of the Minbari interpret this prophecy differently, and believe a Sinclair/Delenn pairing will lead to the end of their species.
* There’s no Narn/Centauri war, at least not in season 2.
* Londo and his Shadow allies orchestrate an ongoing series of disasters and reversals for the Narn Regime, operating behind the scenes, and hence above suspicion. The Narn quickly begin seriously hurting from this.

SEASON 3
* It’s been revealed that there’s a mole operating on the station for the bad guys, probably Psicorps. Perhaps six or seven episodes in to the season, Catherine Sakai is mind-raped, and is effectively off the show from this point, as there’s no further mention of her. This is a bit of a surmise on my part, since JMS deliberately keeps exactly what’s going on here quiet, but it makes perfect sense that she would be the mole: She’s intimately connected with Sinclair, friendly with the command staff, has access via them to all kinds of sensitive information, and is frequently gone from the station for weeks or months at a time, during which she can easily be debriefed by her handlers.
* The Centarui re-capture the Narn Regime, and take command of the Narn homeworld. This might be a “Benevolent Centauri stepping in as a humanitarian gesture to restore order” (but actually annexing it to their empire) or it might be the end of a small war, the memo is very fuzzy on details.
* After 6 or 7 episodes fuming on the station about this, G’kar goes home to head the resistance himself and he’s effectively off the show from that point on (Though he might’ve turned up as a recurring character thereafter)
* We discover that the Vorlons have been manipulating the younger races as long as there have been younger races. They feel themselves to be benevolent, but I, myself, felt some slight (And possibly nonexistent) parallelism between their actions and the Centauri conquest of Narn, after softening it up by manipulation.
* The Sinclair/Delenn romance starts.

SEASON 4
* Garibaldi falls off the wagon.
* The Shadows and the Vorlons fight a proxy war by manipulating the younger races to do their bidding. Obviously the Narn/Centauri conflict was an early salvo in this war. They do not apparently fight each other directly, however.
* As the galaxy falls in to chaos, Garibaldi cashes in his marine skills and becomes a mercenary, using B5 as his home base.
* Sinclair impregnates Delenn.

SEASON 5
* Someone leaks information to earth that makes Sinclair look like a traitor.
* The Centauri attempt to take over B5 and it’s territory
* The Vorlons loose the Shadow/Vorlon war when their massively hugely big mothership (Described as being hundreds of miles long) is destroyed by the Shadows. Again, it’s unclear if the shadows do this directly or by proxy, but again we get some of the parallelism between this and the Narn/Centauri takeover.
* The Vorlons are effectively extinct, though there may be a few survivors here and there.
* The Shadows set themselves up as the behind-the-scenes rulers of the galaxy.
* The Warrior Caste leads a coup on Minbar, and renew hostilities against earth.
* Londo’s association with the Shadows goes public, everyone knows he’s their minion.
* The Minbari attack B5 and destroy it.
* Sinclair, Delenn, and their unnamed baby escape the station just as it goes boom.
THE END"

And what would have happened in the spin-off show "Babylon Prime"? Here is what the writer knows:

"DETAILS:

* The Sinclair family are hiding out, presumably on Epsilon III, under Drall’s protection, though this isn’t overtly stated.
* The Sinclair family and some friends (Including Zathras) use The Great Machine to travel back in time and steal Babylon 4, nine years earlier. It’s unclear who these friends are, but probably one or two cast members from the previous series, and a couple recurring characters bumped up to cast member status, and one or two entirely new people as well. I presume “Mister Jones” would have been involved, but I have no proof of that.
* They bring the station to the future (Their own present, I think), and use it as a base to start an alliance to clean up all the messes left over from the previous series.
* An curious factoid that’s mentioned in all the technical information over the years about B4 finally plays off here: Babylon 4 had engines, and could move about through space. They’re not sitting ducks like B5 was.
* Babylon 4 is renamed “Babylon Prime.”
* B-Prime travels around through space and time building up this new alliance. Presumably we’d meet up with G’kar again, and others as well.
* Emperor Londo is controlled by a Shadow Keeper, not a Drakh keeper as in B5.
* Traveling through time causes Sinclair and Unnamed Baby Sinclair to rapid-age. Baby Sinclair is an adult very quickly.
* Eventually Londo captures the Sinclairs. The Shadows want them, but Londo betrays them and they go free. The Memo doesn’t specifically say how this plays out, but mentions Londo gets the worst of this deal, so I don’t think it’s too much of a surmise to assume G’kar and Londo kill each other, same as we saw in the actual, real, *filmed* B5 series.
* The unnamed baby Sinclair - now an adult - becomes a messianic figure to the people of the galaxy.
* Earth defeats Minbar in the Second Minbari War (Or part 2 of the first Minbari war, if you like, since the issues involved were never really resolved. We’ll just say there was a 14-year halftime in the middle there)
* Sinclair’s name is cleared.
* Ultimately Team Sinclair defeats the Shadows, and everyone is free
* After the war, Delenn and Sinclair split up. (Whaaaaat?)
* Delenn goes back to Minbar and resumes her duties on the Grey Council, since her people need her to recover from the last decade of shenanigans.
* The Team Sinclair/Babylon Prime alliance sort of transforms in to a new interstellar Alliance, sort of like how the allies in World War II sort of transformed in to the UN.
* Their never-named child - now an adult, and a full-on religious leader - becomes the first leader of this alliance.
* Sinclair retires to a completely uninhabited planet, and goes fishing.

THE END"

As we see, Straczynski sort of condensed his original vision over 5 years instead of, potentially, 10, maybe after having seen the incredible difficulties he had in producing just one year of the show. Would have the series been better if the original plan had been followed? Impossible to answer this question, but I'll let you judge of that.