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Originally Posted by Johnstewling
And again, you'd be wrong. Ira was the primary Producer behind DS9 and he had no interaction with JMS.
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Did you even read the source I gave? JMS doesn't claim the show runners had any interaction with him. He claims that the higher-ups who had access to his source material guided the show in a certain direction.
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Originally Posted by Johnstewling
The only thing he was told was to make a starbase centered Star Trek and that's what he did.
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Oh come on, are you denying just for the sake of denying now? Let's list some of the similarities just in the pilot episode.
1 - set on space stations near space transit point – the Bajoran wormhole for DS9, a jumpgate for B5
2 - head of station has rank of commander – Benjamin Sisko, Jeffrey Sinclair - commander carries trauma from recent war or battle – Battle of Wolf 359, Battle of the Line/Earth-Minbari War
3 - female second-in-command – Kira Nerys, Laurel Takashima in "The Gathering", later replaced by Susan Ivanova
4- second-in-command fending off attack on station at pilot's climax
5 - station contains a casino/bar and a central marketplace area for commercial activity – the Promenade, the Zócalo
6 - station visitors include diplomats, merchants, smugglers, and other travelers
7 - pilot episode features a character who changes shape or appearance – Odo, Minbari Assassin using a changeling net.
And I suppose all these similarities were just coincidence. Not to mention both station commanders are basically the chosen one, destined to be the great leader in a coming war.
Even Laforge without his visor can see the blatant parallels.
If you don't want to see the facts before your eyes or just don't want to admit that something you love has controversial origins, that's fine. Go to Egypt and swim in de-nile. But if it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.
I for one am getting the duck out of here.
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