Babylon 5 vs. Deep Space Nine

[Gothic Sponge]

What 90s space station show is best?

[wuushew]

1. B5 seasons 1-4 ruled

season 5 and all spin-offs sucked.

[Terran]

17. How did Season 5 suck, exactly?

I've never seen anything as good on TV as the last few episodes, where they wrapped up five years worth of plot developments.

[malmapus]

21. IMO it sucked because JMS had a story arc he worked with in the begining

He just seemed to rush season 4, and then 5 just felt like he was making it up as he went along (with the change in cast and what not). It really felt rushed to me.

[Placebo]

2. DS9

USS Defiant could whoop any B5 ship, plus it looked way cooler.

Deal with that!

[malmapus]

23. Vorlons would pwn DS9 =D

Defiant aint got nothin on a Vorlon ship, then again we're talkin a difference of millions of years of technology :)

[hyphenate]

3. DS9

It was a group effort, it was character driven, and it didn't have a megalomaniac at its helm.

[baldguy]

4. Once the avalanche has stared, it is too late for the pebbles to vote.

Babylon 5

[MrSandman]

5. DS 9 relied on Trek ,heritade...

B5, rocked.

Wasn't their newspaper Universe Today? How cool is that.

[Deja Q]

6. The Prisoner

That aside, B5 - BY MILES.

[LeftyMom]

7. DS9

was great, B5 was a bore, it's no contest.

[cheeseit]

19. Yeah, I found B5 boring too--definitely prefer DS9

[BuddhaGirl]

8. B5 hands down!

B5 was a total vision and a spiritual journey. DS9 was a good episodic SciFi show.

The B5 creator mapped out the entire five years of the show before the first episode was ever filmed.

[Book Lover]

9. B5 by a mile

Neither show's dialogue or acting was stellar, but for ideas and plotline, JMS was the singular strong hand at the tiller whereas Brannon/Braga's team had no central plan.

[1monster]

10. Babylon 5 beyond a doubt. And just down the road a few years, it seems

like life imitated art. Before I gave up listening to news on the radio and watching televison news, I was astounded at the resemblance of our current day media to B 5's ISN news.......

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

11. I prefer B5, but I'd watchn any Ep of DS9 written by Ron Moore

He wrote some of the best DS9 eipsodes.
He had to get practice for Galactica somewhere.

[no_hypocrisy]

12. Couldn't vote for B5: Jerry Doyle (Garibaldi) is a Hannity Wannabe

Rightwing Radio Talkshow host these days.

[Terran]

16. Ew, really?

Oh well, he was great as Garibaldi (and I loved how he and the doctor went undercover to Mars as a same-sex couple on their honeymoon!).

[no_hypocrisy]

24. Yep. Here's some information and status.

http://www.hannity.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-7007.html

http://www.wicasta.com/thewatch/watch10.html (scroll down)

[Gothic Sponge]

25. That sucks!

:(

[DanCa]

13. James Darren as Vic Fontaine Ruled.

Can't top that.

[Gothic Sponge]

14. Day kick

[Terran]

15. Oh please, B5 by a lightyear. n/t

[ProfessorGAC]

18. Wow! A Very Tough Choice

I loved both of those shows. DS9 is my 2nd favorite of the ST franchise, and i thought B5 was terrifically done. Lots of intrigue and cloak & dagger in both of those shows. I picked DS9, but it was a coin flip, really.
The Professor

[malmapus]

20. No comparrison, Babylon 5 blows DS9 out of the water

With the story arc that JMS was able to keep with (up till Season 4 and 5 when it went downhill IMO I think he was more making it up as he went along).

But even at its worst, B5 was better than DS9 at its best.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

22. DS9