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Message: <blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 6159573" data-attributes="member: 3400"><p>And for that matter, Berman and Piller flatly deny even knowing about Straczynski's pitch to Paramount (Berman says he didn't even know who Straczynski was at the time). And even Straczynski backed off his claims that they had stolen his plotting ideas. I do think it entirely possible, however, that Straczynski's pitch could have made DS9 more likely. His rejected pitch in 1989 could have planted the idea in the powers that be at Paramount so that when another space station pitch cropped up with their own properties, they were more likely to accept it. It could have been because it was now less of an alien idea or it could have been because they knew someone out there was shopping the Bab5 idea around, may have found backing, and they wanted to make sure they had an answer to it. I'm not sure it entirely matters, at this point.</p></blockquote><p></p>