I must post this Christmas carol

[LennyLen]

ST:TNG was by far my most favourite TV series of all time. I still watch it on the Space channel, even though I pretty much know every episode's dialogue from memory.

It's one of my favourites, but I think I still have to give the all-time favourite award to B5.

I could never get into B5. I watched a few episodes here and there, but it always felt like a forced DS9 ripoff.

It's funny you should say that. Straczynski pitched his ideas for B5 to Paramount first, and gave them a lot of the material for the show, but in the end, they passed on it. Then, a couple of months after Warner signed on for the show, Paramount announced their plans for DS9, which included plots and characters remarkably similar to ones that Straczynski had given them when they were in discussion about B5.