I loved the black and silver/grey colour scheme of the bridge. And the landing party jackets. I wish they'd kept that.
Sure RCA/NBC wanted to sell colour TVs but that bridge, minus the red railing and door was sleek.
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I loved the black and silver/grey colour scheme of the bridge. And the landing party jackets. I wish they'd kept that.
Sure RCA/NBC wanted to sell colour TVs but that bridge, minus the red railing and door was sleek.
Tho some of the language of the cage makes it sound like a star trek porn parody lol
Considering they were made of something like inverted carpet padding, they would have disappeared fast. Even if they came up with a new material and kept the costume element, they would have looked different the next time we saw them.
Probably the only really unpopular opinion around here would be 'all Trek is drivel and no one in his/her right mind should waste his/her time watching it' 
I still think DS9 copied/ lifted a bit from Babylon 5. There, unpopular enough? *ducks and hides*
Did they, though? Sure, Babylon 5 premiered two weeks before DS9 did, but the primary similarities stated by strict B5 fans all don't exist until you get to series proper. Things like the young doctor, fresh from the academy, that sort of thing. And even though B5 premiered first, DS9 went right to series, while B5 took a year off to make their first season before airing it. DS9 was on the air for a year before B5 got to series proper, and it was only then that the similarities showed up. So who copied whom?
I'm going to go with neither. Just coincidence. Happens sometimes.
^ Yeah, even JMS himself doesn't think that DS9 ripped off B5. If he can let it go, then so can the rest of us.
See Denis the Menace.
There's even more difference if you consider that (at least according to Memory Alpha) they originally wanted DS9 to be located on Bajor itself (I assume something like Farpoint Station in the TNG pilot?) but the location shooting would have been too expensive.
Bottomline DS9 and Babylon 5 are both good SciFi shows.
Bottomline DS9 and Babylon 5 are both good SciFi shows.
I will say i tried watching B5 (because its free on prime) and i do have to say i found it hard to get through the first three episodes does it get better after season 1? Maybe ill give it another shot
Star Trek shouldn't change the way it tells its stories to fit with the times. I think they're late to the game with the serialization. DS9 was ahead of it's time with the way it was structured. Enterprise had two and three episode arcs mixed in with stand alone episodes. Then there was a huge break without Trek during which a bunch of other shows came and went that were serialized.
Star Trek is Comfy. Especially from TOS to ENT. They are very re-watchable. I've never felt the need to re-watch Discovery or Picard.
Star Trek is it's own brand of tv. To make it like everything else is a mistake.
Season one lays a lot of the plot elements that are used later on. The story does get more compelling, unfortunately the acting and special effects generally do not.
From the second season on it does get a lot better. It's not a perfect show, but it was one of the first US genre shows that were heavily serialized.
Then it is irrelevant.
1997 called. It wants its Flame War back.
Big changes occur for Season 2, like
Sinclair is replaced by Sheridan (Bruce Boxleitner). And we get space wars!
I sure hope it doesn't turn into Dune that movie was weird
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