Watch babylon 510/5/2023 ![]() Now the DS9 showrunners themselves probably knew little or nothing about this, and they freely did their own thing with the basic premise. aaaand they essentially stole his basic idea for the show, and slapped "Star Trek" on it since that was their already successful franchise. Michael Straczynski pitched his concept for Babylon 5 to Paramount executives. Yeah, this situation is kinda infamous and led to a lot of strife between Babylon 5 and Trek fandom in the 90s (despite there being a lot of cross-pollination of talent both onscreen and off!) The short version is that a few years before DS9 and B5 began (he had been working on it since the late 80s), J. ![]() Like for example, I have no idea what happened to Babylon 4 and that's exciting. I've done a pretty good job of avoiding them so far. Anyone else here who has seen it, can you tell me more about the music and why you like? Even though the music hasn't made much of an impression, I know it's beloved so I'll keep paying attention. For the most part, I don't care about borrowing in tales unless it gets really egregious. I'm betting that as the series goes on, their own mythologies reveal their shapes to be more separate from each other in both concept and execution but then again who knows. That's the thing, I'm a big fan of Deep Space Nine and it's pretty obvious there was a lot of borrowing. He had some interesting comments about how you can't win with fans because if it's too alien they'll complain it isn't human enough.Īnyway, I also watched Episode 1 which clearly had a lot of foreshadowing for the Transylvanian Quark-type character from the race that seems Cardassian-like in narrative. I'm interested in seeing the walk through the alien zone from the original that supposedly looked too much like a zoo. I'm not mad about it though it seems like the creator much prefers the re-edit. Although I would like to see it sometime. The Special Edition version, the original is hard to find online. I'm not far in but I really like what I have seen so far. I just started Babylon 5 and I thought I'd reach out and see who else here likes it.
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