Quote Originally Posted by Rodin View Post
Also, is it just me or is it really weird that both Deep Space Nine and Babylon 5 have fanatical xenophobic groups that go around branding people? They're so similar that I actually got them confused and conflated the groups, and when I last re-watched Babylon 5 I couldn't remember where I got the name "The Circle" from. To DS9's credit, they came up with it a full year before Babylon 5 did, so the copycat in this case is clear. Or maybe not even a copycat - there were enough old Star Trek scripts floating around that it wouldn't surprise me the B5 writers dug it out of storage without even checking to see if DS9 had already used it.
The Babylon 5 similarity in plotline was addressed by JMS here: http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/countr...de/007.html#JS (6th bullet point).