JMS is in charge but I don’t trust it and will stick to my rule about modern TV. The original was fine but I’m sure there will be articles attacking it.
Superman and Lois was a pleasant surprise and I’d like to believe that CW is seeing the light but I’m not that naive.
I'll take the incoming downvotes for the following unpopular opinion:
Babylon 5 was never good.
Not as bad as most modern woke trash, but I've never understood the hype, and I don't think the CW could make it any campier or more of a soap opera than it was already.
Same here. I am currently on season 4. I remember a lot of people saying DS9 stole the idea
Babylon 5 was pitched to CBS before DS9 was a concept, so, it is certainly possible the idea at its most basic level at least was taken from there. (And I find it likely it did happen - just an exec hearing a pitch and saying, "but wait, why a new IP when we already have one? Hire writers and tell them we are doing Star Trek on a space station!")
But the two shows are totally different aside from the space station premise. At least I think so. The few similarities they do have just seem to be basic TV or sci-fi tropes, too generic to really make a claim one way or the other.