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Message: <blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 912518" data-attributes="member: 463">That's an excellent point - B5 was written in the spirit of classic '50s-'60s sf and consequently shares a lot with TOS Trek.  Of course Paramount ripped JMS' original B5 proposal off and called it 'Deep space 9'.It's very noticeable that modern 'Trek seems to be almost the opposite of this - subdued characters, little melodrama, new-age mysticism rather than TOS' scientific humanism, anti-military but pro-authority - no one ever questions 'the system', which is held to be unquestionably all-good, all-perfect.  I read a nice critique of modern (DS9 & VOY) Trek which commented that it comes across as if it were 24th century Federation propaganda rather than an objective presentation of a universe.</blockquote>