Not quite. The only thing they really have in common is using mysticism in a Science Fiction setting. Babylon 5 is a weirder and more spiritual universe than Star Trek, but not nearly as weird as Dune.
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Not quite. The only thing they really have in common is using mysticism in a Science Fiction setting. Babylon 5 is a weirder and more spiritual universe than Star Trek, but not nearly as weird as Dune.
It does get better, but if my memory seves (it's been a while), if you are not already hooked on some aspects (for me, Londo/ G'Kar and the Narn/ Centauri conflict,and at that time the Vorlons), it might not be for you. I'd still give it another try.
I wasn't around at the time, but I hope that 22 ys later, that's not an issue anymore.
I am not, btw., a "strict" B5'er, as someone upthread calls it, I like both shows.
When i first heard Londo's voice i laughed so hard lol
It's not an issue. I should've used an emoticon. Like this.
Though flashback to 1997. Because why not? Here's an exchange I had with someone else on another board at the time (TrekBBS wasn't around yet). It was in a thread he started called, "Star Trek feasts on its own entrails" (classy title
). He was complaining about the state of the Star Trek Franchise and I think he was trying to compare Gene Roddenberry to Tim Burton and Rick Berman to Joel Schumacher. I'm going to try to paraphrase part of it as best as I can...Them: TOS is like Batman (1989), TNG is like Batman Returns, and Voyager is like Batman Forever.
Me: You deliberately left out DS9. Is that because it messes up your analogy?
Them: DS9 is just a rip-off of Babylon 5, so it doesn't count because it's not even Star Trek. Voyager, OTOH, tries to be Star Trek and fails miserably.
Then someone else hit him with a comeback that I won't repeat here because you could get away with it back in 1997, but it would never fly today.
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The internet was such a wonderful place back then. Much more free in some ways.
Unpopular Opinion: I like 2nd Season TOS better than 1st Season TOS. The writing clicks a lot better and Gene L. Coon is more my style. John Meredyth Lucas is pretty good too. Can't forget about the music too. And Checkov.
While I disagree with that, I'm gonna say that the Romulans in the Enterprise Incident were more interesting (and less silly looking) than they would ever be in TNG or even DS9 and the Female Commander was a more compelling character than all the named Romulan characters from 90s Trek combined (seriously what was Sela even?).
Indeed, their uniforms are just ridiculous, overly padded shoulders and the stupid pocket for their disruptor, that just silly.
Absolutely. People love to shit on S3 of TOS because it was relatively less effective than the first two seasons and because it's well documented that the budgets were cut and Gene was basically out. That said, it was also far more science-fiction-y than the previous seasons and it was tonally very fascinating as well.
I actually really like that they got away from a lot of the parallel-Earth stuff that seemed to be the theme of S2.
Don't forget the awful hair.
I don't get why they never changed those uniforms (and hair) again during the series run. The Cardassians went through a couple awful uniform designs (and some awful hair, particularly female Cardassians) before they settled on the (pretty good looking) uniforms shown on DS9.
heck in ENT know when they showed romulans not to do the shoulder pads, i like the brief romulan uniforms they showed in ENT, they seemed stylish an piratical
Ron Moore said he kept pushing for an evolution in Romulan fashion for years and Berman finally allowed them to change the costumes in season 3. The Die Is Cast two-parter is the first episode to feature the the new Romulan outfits.
From Memory Alpha:
yeah practical, as much as i do like the TOS Romulan uniforms they are the definition of flashy fashion over practicalityI am guessing that you meant "practical" not that they looked like pirates.
Can wait to get to my rewatch of DS9 Season 3 then :-)
Unfortunately they still have the crappy hairstyles though :-(
Well if enterprise had one redeeming factor, then it was that the design and special effects on the Aliens were pretty good.
As did I. Didn't really like Archer or the way Bakula played him but I quite liked the show.
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