Blog #29: Babylon 5 (DS9's Competition)?
Part I: My Pre -Discussion Of 'Babylon 5' Shortly after the launch of DS 9 in the spring of 1993 there was a TV movie that made it's premiere, and it was called 'Babylon 5'. To be honest I was not impressed. The story was bad, the make-up looked terrible and and special effects were not even close to being as good as DS 9. Despite all this the movie was enough to convince someone at Warner Brothers to invest in a TV season and in January 1994 'Babylon 5' the TV series was born. They really cleaned up the TV series from what the TV movie had been. the special effects, although not DS 9 quality were a lot better. B5 was one of the first space series to use all digital f x , which really made them pioneers in the field. As the series progressed the special effects got pretty solid and looked good, but the first few season did not look as good as their DS 9 counterpart. The make up got better for the series, especial...