So... did JMS deliberately give his two main characters (Jeff Sinclair and John Sheridan) the same first and last initials as himself in the hope that someone would make him a teddybear with his initials on it?! Or was he just that psychic that he knew?!!

JMS actually hates Teddybears, that's why the Teddybear ended up floating in space, it was a gift I think from Peter David who had some part in writing or directing the episode. Peter is supposed to have gotten back at JMS by having an episode of a different show feature a pilot also finding a teddybear in space and saying 'what idiot would throw a teddybear into space'
At least that' what I've read.

That is correct Art I forget the name but it was a show created by Peter David and Bill Mumy

The show was the Nickelodeon one called "Space Cases".

Oh no. Does that mean they exist in the same universe? I smell shades of Scream/Halloween here.

How fast was the teddybear going? I doubt it could have left the Epsilon system in 1000 years, or so.

Should the teddybear have been floating so far away from the station? In the season 1 episode “And the Sky Full of Stars”, when Sinclair has gone missing Garibaldi recommends that Ivanova send out a maintenance bot (or a Starfury – I can’t remember which) to look all around the outside of the station, saying that if somebody had killed Sinclair and stuffed him out an airlock the gravitational pull of the station would keep his body close by. So if Sheridan threw the teddy out of an airlock, shouldn’t it still be close to the station instead of drifting out into space?

He probably launched it out a tube to make sure it was lost in space never to be found again.

If Corey's additude towards Sheridan is typical of her, it'd be a wonder if she retains any clients.

Anyone else think that the appearances made by Talia and Keffer in this episode had a whiff of EGAL? It's certainly odd as Babylon 5 is usually good about avoiding that sort of thing.

Why did Keffer say he couldn't identify the bear? "not on a bet?" Did he have some reason not to report what he saw? Did J.S. order or pay him not to?

I think he realised that if he told them that a teddybear was floating in space, he'd be sent straight to the psychiatrist and taken off active duty for weeks!

That wouldn't be so bad.. so long as the psychiatrist isn't Mr. Bester.