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<blockquote data-quote="Villano" data-source="post: 911720" data-attributes="member: 505">B5 VS Star TrekThe best example I've heard concerning the differences between the writing of B5 and Trek came from Peter David.&nbsp; David is primarily a comic book writer, although he's written a few scripts and several novels, including a few Trek books.I remember an article he wrote in his column Comic Buyer's Guide about his experience writing for B5.&nbsp; When he submitted his first script, he was told to rewrite it because it was &quot;too Star Trek&quot;.&nbsp; He had no idea what that meant, but he tried a rewrite.&nbsp; Again, he was told the same thing.Finally, it dawned on him.&nbsp; By the end of his script nothing had changed.&nbsp; The characters were the same as they were in the beginning and all the problems were resolved by the end.&nbsp; I think that this really sums up Trek well.&nbsp; With few exceptions, each episode is self-contained and things established in one episode don't necessarily have any effect on any future ones.Of course, DS9 maintained its own continuity very well (even though I felt the Dominion was nowhere near as interesting as the Cardassians).&nbsp; However, Next Gen and Voyager (never saw Enterprise) rarely did anything that built upon their own pasts.And while they may have not taken pains to establish continuity, at least they didn't rewrite it each week like other shows (cough * Xena * cough). <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Villano, post: 911720, member: 505"] [b]B5 VS Star Trek[/b] The best example I've heard concerning the differences between the writing of B5 and Trek came from Peter David. David is primarily a comic book writer, although he's written a few scripts and several novels, including a few Trek books. I remember an article he wrote in his column Comic Buyer's Guide about his experience writing for B5. When he submitted his first script, he was told to rewrite it because it was "too Star Trek". He had no idea what that meant, but he tried a rewrite. Again, he was told the same thing. Finally, it dawned on him. By the end of his script nothing had changed. The characters were the same as they were in the beginning and all the problems were resolved by the end. I think that this really sums up Trek well. With few exceptions, each episode is self-contained and things established in one episode don't necessarily have any effect on any future ones. Of course, DS9 maintained its own continuity very well (even though I felt the Dominion was nowhere near as interesting as the Cardassians). However, Next Gen and Voyager (never saw Enterprise) rarely did anything that built upon their own pasts. And while they may have not taken pains to establish continuity, at least they didn't rewrite it each week like other shows (cough * Xena * cough). :) [/QUOTE]

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