I am a Star Trek fan (not the new stuff) and I always heard Deep Space 9 is a ripoff of Babylon 5. Have the DS9 writers ever admitted as much or acknowledged an influence? I’m 19 episodes in and I’m liking it. I can see the concept for sure that DS9 uses.
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I watched them contemporaneously and also participated in online (dial-up modem!) chats with JMS and can affirm that they developed independently.
“A space station” is about all they share.