http://www.horus.at/~bjelli/bjelli/b5vsst.htmlPeople stay dead on B5. Just ask Sheridan. (He died and was resurrected in season 4... to coin a phrase for the website's author: "Whoops".)
B5 has computer generated graphics vs. Voyager has a computer generated PlotAnd?
Babylon 5's name comes from an important historical reference. vs. Voyager is named after a mini-van.LOL
B5 has Bester vs. ST has Chekov.'nuff said. :D
On B5 Marcus is a virgin and it's a big deal. vs. On -any- ST show, they never admit to having sex.Just ask Kirk! :7
ST: Dragging it's butt on putting in GLBT characters. vs. B5: Ivanova and Talia.Yeah, but it's two women and therefore socially acceptable for the censors to allow. Besides, DS9 during season 4, and various other times, did the two lady routine as well - often with Dax because it was a trill operating a human host and the trill uses love in terms of the soul, not of the body. (See? ST can have some depth at times too... of course, the body Dax's trill used to operate was male, but this is ST - every time it talks sexuality, it always does so using heterosexual nomenclature... the TNG episode "The Outcast" does more to slap the GLBT cause because its story is about accepting heterosexuality in a world whose inhabitants made test tube babies the norm... yawn.)
B5:influenced by Tolkein vs. V'ger:influenced by money.:D
Plot complexity : On b5: you miss one line and you are confused for the rest of the season. vs. On voyager: you catch last 5 minutes of the episode and you already understand the entire episode.Ouch. But not entirely untrue.
ST: Last minute solution saves the race. vs. B5: last minute solution too late, race dies.Also a typical truism.
Number of times B5 has been taken by hostile forces: 0 vs. Number of times V'ger has been taken by hostile forces: 3 (4 if you count holographic Nazis)!Wow, the author of this website sat through all of Voyager?! I couldn't during the Kes era and the 7-o-9 era wasn't without problems either...
The characters on B5 are anatomicaly (sic) superior (just ask Londo)
Cool.
You don't get paid in Star Trek.The original TV series talked of money. DS9 critters use money... the Ferengi are nothing but money.
Tell me we won't have poverty in the future !Well, when you don't get paid, poverty ensues. :think:
I couldn't sleep the night "Zha'ha'dum" aired. vs. I sleep(sic) DURING ST:V
Big ouch! But big truth!
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And my own contribution:
B5 characters are real and change due to life experiences. ST characters are pompous, overblown, one-sided, stereotyped caricatures without depth. Just ask any Ferengi. But the website would have people summing that up anyway. :D I will say this - both series have merit. But the website author has an amusing right-wing slant that can be annoying at times. Especially when overlooking obvious spelling and grammatical errors. Captain Sheridan would not have approved... But I digress. B5 seemed to feel authentic and real and growing, whereas ST was always preachy.