One of the prequel-movie performers turned out to be Michael O'Hare, whom Boxleitner replaced shortly into the show's run. Partisan fans filled chat rooms and bombarded Boxleitner with snail-mail. "People really got hateful," Boxleitner marvels, "like I was personally putting Michael O'Hare out of work. And I thought, 'How could I have possibly have done that?' I mean, I was offered a job and I took it and I walked in and was made to feel very comfortable immediately. I was barely aware of the man myself; I didn't watch the show! By the time we did "War Without End" [the third-season closer, in which Sinclair's momentous eventual fate is revealed], it was like he was this ten-foot-tall shining knight, the way fans had built him up."

Fortunately, when the two finally met during that episode's production, they jested rather than jousted. "I was just wrapping for the day, heading for the makeup trailer to take the makeup off. In comes this guy with a ball cap on, and he walks right into my face and I walk right up into him, and there was no one else around, and he says, 'Bruce. Michael O'Hare.' And I go, 'Michael! How are ya?' And we talked for a few minutes, and any kind of awkwardness between us went away. When we worked together there was no problem�Michael and I got along fantastically. But among the fans it was like this war, Sheridan vs. Sinclair...and I think, 'My God. These people need a life.'"

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