I was surprised that Joe agreed to having his name put on the back end of the station in the opening credits - it rather spoils the 'believability' of the station.
I read on a website recently that if the station must have writing on the end, it would have been much more fun if it said:
Open other end
or
If you can read this, you've been thrown out an airlock
or
Our last best hope for peas peace.
I also came up with:
If you can read this, you're John Sheridan's teddy bear.
someone please explain the teddy bear joke, i hear it alot!
At one point JMS got sent a teddy bear with his initials on it. Actually only the JS. He according to different stories was : Happy, Upset, or indifferent. But it was incorporated into an episode. I can't remember the title of right now off the top of my head and am feeling a bit lazy tonight. But the ep had earth dome trying to make a buck by opening a store to sell bab 5 merchandise and the crew wasn't too happy (the centauri attributes joke was funny). So toward the end Sheriden (Not the civil war one!;-) had ivonavoa close the store down and ship it back except for the teddy bear with his initials that he siezed. At the closing tag keiffer was on patrol outside the station and ran into the bear which for some reason slid up his windscreen on his fighter and thus a joke was born.
That ep where they merchandise the station Ivonavoa said "This station is about something. We're not some deep space franchise" as a joke about rival space station show DS9.
The episode is from the 2nd season: "There All the Honor Lies".
The teddy bear was given to Joe by Peter David's wife. As Joe doesn't like 'cute', he included the bear in the next episode that Peter wrote.
For more information, click here - The Lurker's Guide.
See also The Shrine to the Babearlon Bear. And if you do like cute, try the rest of that site as well!
The station could have PLEASE DOCK OTHER SIDE written on the back, like the stations on the game Elite II frontier.
Nits
When the assassin clubs the star fury pilot, the "whack" sound occurs just a slight moment before his head moves from the impact. There's a very very tiny delay or rather... well, the opposite of delay... anyway, the sound of the "whack" doesn't sync with the impact.
The word you're thinking of is "anticipation".
NANJAO
While Byron is talking to Lochley about his people and how they want a place to stay, he winks. My guess is the actor had something in his eye but just continued to play the part regardless.