| Aside from “Q who” all of the earlier Q episodes were terrible. But the later ones are much better at using him for comic relief without going into the realm of absurdity. > As far as DS9 ripping off B5 Just to be clear, I wasn’t voicing my opinion when I posted that. I was just reporting on the speculation. There’s more to the story than what I’ve posted too. Lots of hearsay published from people who were on the inside at the time too. I don’t think we’ll ever know for certain but personally I don’t think it really matter if DS9 took ideas or not anyway because (and as I said earlier) all art copies each other. It’s not like Straczynski invented SciFi. > but in the end the shows and characters and plot are very different Of course they are. Even if Paramount did steal ideas from B5 (and I’m not suggesting they did) Paramount would still have to write it in a way that differed otherwise they’d have been clearly open to litigation. > I think the shows can stand on their own without bringing up JMS's butthurt. Straczynski wasn’t butthurt. He was the one who argued against litigation and even defended some of the writers on Star Trek. > Well maybe that's why I enjoyed TNG season 1-2 so much... I’m guessing you’re a fan of TOS as well? It sounds like you’re more a fan of Roddenberry’s influence on TNG than his other writers. |