(06-22-2014, 02:59 PM)Starfury Wrote: Glad to see a fellow Trekie here, as a hardcore B5 fan i've always had a bit of snit about DS9, I always felt that it only became good after it 'acquired' certain sapects of its story from B5. Don't get me wrong once it did(after season 2) it really kicked into gear and I absolutely loved it, though I was always a bit miffed with what happened to Sisko in the final episode.
Now I know this is fan blasphemy but I love both B5 and DS9 even despite the whole "maybe DS9 was heavily, heavily inspired *coughcoughripped-offcough* by B5 when it was pitched to the network" thing. And although the darker stories in Deep Space Nine go against some of Roddenberry's vision of a brighter, more hopeful future, I think that, ultimately, even utopias should have a bit of grit about them. See also: Benjamin Sisko, Elim Garak, and Kira Nerys. (I'm also fond of Julian Bashir, but shhh, don't tell anyone I said so. How they managed to make him into a very interesting character was just fantastic.)
"I can feed the caterpillar, I can whisper through the chrysalis, but what hatches follows its own nature and is beyond me."
-- Hannibal (TV show)
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