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<blockquote data-quote="Viking Bastard" data-source="post: 915949" data-attributes="member: 509">It was often alluded to that the B5 aliens often had more than one religion. The Narn one was the only one that was ever gone into detail though. It was revealed that that whatever-ya-call-em-blue-all-look-alike race had several religions in the episodes after the Vorlon/Angel sighting, although the differences between them were never discussed (they were just fighting amongst themselvesover those differences). The Minbari used to have multiple religionsin the ole' days, but they had all merged into one official 'The Galaxy's a Sentinent Being' Zen Jedi Code cosmology which is alsodivided into different philosophical orders. The ruling culture on Centauri Prime were originally just one of many nations, that conquered the rest of the planet and forced their culture and beliefs down their brethren's throats (never revealed on-screen I think, just from JMS's comments on the subject). Etc.For me, the main difference between B5 and Trek on this subject is that although it may not be gone into the multi-cultural aspectsof the B5 universe in detail, it is strongly again and again implied that we know nearly nothing of the many races, that what we seeis only the outer shell of a very complex society, which the govermentof said society wants to project to the outer world while I neverget the feeling that there is any more to any of the alien-of-the-week Trek aliens, even if there really is.Y'know. Did that make sense?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Viking Bastard, post: 915949, member: 509"] It was often alluded to that the B5 aliens often had more than one religion. The Narn one was the only one that was ever gone into detail though. It was revealed that that whatever-ya-call-em- blue-all-look-alike race had several religions in the episodes after the Vorlon/Angel sighting, although the differences between them were never discussed (they were just fighting amongst themselves over those differences). The Minbari used to have multiple religions in the ole' days, but they had all merged into one official 'The Galaxy's a Sentinent Being' Zen Jedi Code cosmology which is also divided into different philosophical orders. The ruling culture on Centauri Prime were originally just one of many nations, that conquered the rest of the planet and forced their culture and beliefs down their brethren's throats (never revealed on-screen I think, just from JMS's comments on the subject). Etc. For me, the main difference between B5 and Trek on this subject is that although it may not be gone into the multi-cultural aspects of the B5 universe in detail, it is strongly again and again implied that we know nearly nothing of the many races, that what we see is only the outer shell of a very complex society, which the goverment of said society wants to project to the outer world while I never get the feeling that there is any more to any of the alien-of-the- week Trek aliens, even if there really is. Y'know. Did that make sense? [/QUOTE]

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