Battlestar Galactica II (No Joke)

[Baron Munchausen]

Originally posted by Hadrian Tyrael S. Aventine:
Acutally, DS9 being a rip of B5 isn't true and isn't provable. Both shows did develop at the same time, along with many other space-station based sci-fi shows. Those two developed, many others failed.

Also, the script controllers at Paramount don't keep stuff like story pitches. I've seen incidents where a writer will pitch them 4 stories, they'll say keep that one for later and make it more detailed and come back, then trash it a month later. They trashed it because they don't remember it. These people see and hear millions of script pitches a day.

Plus B5 was pitched to the day time soap people at paramount, whom promptly canned it.

Sorry, but it is entirely provable. You can look at the two story arcs and see point after point copied from B5. They actually stole some of the actors in mid-story, like the guy that played 'General Hague', to play the same part in their story arc.

Strasczinski publicly stated in the B5 newsGroups that he had pitched the story to Paramount and given them a full printed outline of the arc. So it's no 'mystery' or 'coincidence' that the two series overlap so much.