Einstein

"Einstein"
Time flies. Time Bandits. Time wounds all heals.
First appearance	(4.11 "Unrealized Reality")
Last appearance	The Peacekeeper Wars
Details
Gender	Unknown
Species	Ancients
Age	Unknown (Ancient)
Portrayed by	John Bach

Bio:

Unrealized Reality

While literally hanging out in space waiting for a precious wormhole to appear, John gets what he's looking for and more when he is sucked into an unstable wormhole. John is deposited in a contrived environment where a member of the Ancients is waiting for him.

Einstein, as John names him, looks for all purposes like an elderly mortician in a black suit with blank, black "eyes" and gray pasty skin. He belongs to the race of Ancients. He does not look like the Ancient insect-critter named Jack. Einstein says that Ancients that look like critter-Jack are modified forms of Ancients that allows them to live in John's realm. Einstein has taken on the form of a human to better interact with John, but he is not really corporeal. John is impressed with Einstein's choice of threads.

Concerned with John's ability to predict wormholes opening and because of John's general knowledge of wormholes, Einstein has brought John to this temporary environment to eliminate the knowledge by eliminating John. Reacting to the threat, John pulls his pulse pistol on Einstein. Einstein demonstrates that he can manipulate time by slowing down the pulse from John's pistol to a degree where it looks like it is stopped in time.

John begins to experience multiple "unrealized realities" during his time with Einstein. Einstein is able to pull John out of them before he becomes a permanent fixture in one of them. Although Einstein thinks John's knowledge is possibly dangerous he determines that John need not be eliminated but also admits it's "Impossible. Impractical and possibly imprudent" to remove John's wormhole knowledge.

As their encounter continues, Einstein becomes weaker and will soon be unable to pull John out of any further unrealized realities nor will he be able to hold the environment together for much longer. Einstein explains to John how John can control to which reality the next wormhole will take him without a means of propulsion. When Einstein finally loses his power, he vanishes along with the environment save for a lake of what looks like water and John hovering above it. John is on his own to find his way back to Moya and there is a little surprise in store for him when he does.

The Peacekeeper Wars

During the Peacekeeper Wars, Einstein reappears when John takes Scarran Emperor Staleek to see him in the same environment where John first encountered Einstein. John is trying to convince Staleek, and probably himself, that he cannot create a wormhole weapon. When the three meet, Einstein answers "You cannot" to John's question about whether John can build a wormhole weapon. As Staleek moves to attack Einstein, in a vain attempt to force him to give up the knowledge, Einstein freezes Staleek in his tracks with a wave of his hand. Einstein tells John that it might now be prudent to take the wormhole knowledge from him to which John says, "Amen!". With that, Einstein again vanishes leaving John looking perplexed and slightly stunned. When Staleek unfreezes he asks John again if he can make wormhole weapons to which John simply replies, "We should get back."

With a device the DRDs built from John's specs, John is forced to create a destructive wormhole, ironically, to stop the Scarran-Peacekeeper War. It seems Einstein had unlocked that knowledge on John's last visit with him. With the wormhole growing and destroying everything in its path including the Eidelon's water planet, the Staleek and Grayza agree to end the war. John reenters the wormhole creation device to stop the wormhole. In the process, Einstein seems to appear to John and removes the wormhole knowledge from John's mind while destroying the deadly wormhole but leaving John in a coma. It appears John's relationship with the Ancients is at an end and his wormhole knowledge is gone.