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by adastra22 978 days ago
It makes a lot of sense to realize that DS9 was direct competition to B5, which was being produced and aired at the same time. That’s why DS9 is so different from other Trek. It was trying to be or beat what Babylon 5 achieved.

Even saying that though, I don’t think you can say one is better than the other. I can see why your wife likes them both though.
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aidenn0 978 days ago
> It makes a lot of sense to realize that DS9 was direct competition to B5, which was being produced and aired at the same time

I know; they were even aired in the same timeslot (IIRC Wednesdays at 7) where I lived, and I had a prior engagement on Wednesday nights and only one VCR, so I had to pick which one to record. I settled on B5.

I didn't watch all of DS9 until it was on Netflix.

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adastra22 978 days ago
You picked well.
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