[ SECRET POST #5468 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5468 ⌋

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Comments

[4thofeleven]

That's almost certainly not true. Among other things:
- DS9 was originally pitched as a planet-based show, not a station show; there's some concept art of the original proposal. They switched to a station because they felt constant location shooting would be too expensive.

- The writers of DS9 have made it very clear that nobody at Paramount wanted a show with long story-arcs like B5; DS9 only got away with it because Voyager was the flagship show, so DS9 was allowed to get away with doing its own thing. Paramount rejected B5 because they didn't want to make that sort of show in the first place, not because they planned on stealing its concepts.

[(Anonymous)]

- The station based element is only one similarity. Other major plot points that are unusual for Trek but are extremely similar to B5: everything surrounding the wormhole, the 'emissary' stuff, the two warring races, to name a few

- This second point has no bearing on whether Paramount execs deliberately took elements of B5 for the premise of DS9.

[(Anonymous)]

Hahahahahahaha. You're an idiot. Babylon 5 had no wormholes, that was their attempt to do FTL without doing Trek warp drive or Star Wars hyperspace. The stable wormhole is based on an earlier TNG episode, which had a wormhole that was believed stable, and the idea of warring races goes all the way back to TOS with the Federation and the Klingons, which was also stopped back then by godlike aliens. A starfleet officer given extra importance by being best fave with godlike beings? That is a retread of Q from TNG's pilot mixed with the TOS Organians. A collection of Aliens looking for an alliance, that is The Federation, but if you want get more specific about the alien politics, TOS' Journey to Babel is an episode based on exactly that. Name some more, go on, I dare you.

And you keep on ignoring that a Space Station based Trek show had been hawked around as far back as the seventies. Nobody stole shit from JMS, he was fishing in the same general cultural pool as every other SFF f