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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9439785" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>Yeah JMS definitely got over it with style, but he was quite upset about it for a few years. So I don't think it's exactly irony as much as coming to realize something didn't hugely matter in the end. He didn't sue because he felt it would cause problems for both productions but threatened during DS9 development that if more similarities came to light that already existed, he might have to.</p><p></p><p>I think his annoyance was heightened as Deep Space 9 actually beat Babylon 5 to market, which lead to a lot of people to assume DS9 was the "original" idea and B5 some sort of imitation of it, and this idea bounced around the early internet a fair bit (where JMS was quite active). This was a really common assertion in the early-mid 1990s online Star Trek community, and it wasn't until like, the late '90s people generally became aware this wasn't true. Somewhere I think I still have a 1993 "fanzine" (of incredibly high production quality, including colour plates, and bound like a softcover book) about Deep Space 9, which contained a very sneering and dismissive few paragraphs on Babylon 5 (including implying it was a copycat), which informed my rather-ignorant 15-year-old opinion of it initially.</p><p></p><p>Both shows were so good though, so I definitely don't regret that some dodgy Paramount executive may have made some suggestions based on having read JMS' B5 materials a couple of years earlier.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 9439785, member: 18"] Yeah JMS definitely got over it with style, but he was quite upset about it for a few years. So I don't think it's exactly irony as much as coming to realize something didn't hugely matter in the end. He didn't sue because he felt it would cause problems for both productions but threatened during DS9 development that if more similarities came to light that already existed, he might have to. I think his annoyance was heightened as Deep Space 9 actually beat Babylon 5 to market, which lead to a lot of people to assume DS9 was the "original" idea and B5 some sort of imitation of it, and this idea bounced around the early internet a fair bit (where JMS was quite active). This was a really common assertion in the early-mid 1990s online Star Trek community, and it wasn't until like, the late '90s people generally became aware this wasn't true. Somewhere I think I still have a 1993 "fanzine" (of incredibly high production quality, including colour plates, and bound like a softcover book) about Deep Space 9, which contained a very sneering and dismissive few paragraphs on Babylon 5 (including implying it was a copycat), which informed my rather-ignorant 15-year-old opinion of it initially. Both shows were so good though, so I definitely don't regret that some dodgy Paramount executive may have made some suggestions based on having read JMS' B5 materials a couple of years earlier. [/QUOTE]
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