Wow.
I liked Doyle. Also Boxleitner. But Babylon 5 was butt awful....a direct ripoff of DS 9 (which was not the greatest but had its moments)
And what the hell was Mr Mollari? Where was Curly?
This turkey stayed on for years....yet only 14 episodes of the great Firefly were made .
B5 was great.
Also, it was pitched before DS9 came out. I believe JMS has briefly talked about it and how he feels DS9 borrowed from his potch to Warner Brothers.
From IMDB:
There was a level of friction between fans of Babylon 5 (1994) and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Babylon 5 fans felt that writers for Deep Space Nine had stolen many aspects of Babylon 5’s premise (occurring recently after a war/occupation, episodes taking place on a space station not located in Earth territory, the cast discovering an ancient malevolent race that would become a major threat, the overall story of the show being less reliant on story-of-the-week episodes and more of an overarching story arc, etc.), asserting that Paramount had rejected J. Michael Straczynski’s proposal of Babylon 5 to them in the late 80’s, but used certain details of the pitch by inserting them into the story/premise of Deep Space Nine. There was a concerted effort to bury the hatchet, especially by having Majel Barrett (widow of Gene Roddenberry) appear on Babylon 5 as an alien prophetess who spoke on behalf on her recently deceased husband (an obvious nod to Roddenberry who had passed away a few short years before her appearance).
Personally, I liked Bab5 better than DS9.
Wife & I loved Babylon 5.
It was a great story told to us by great actors & great writing. While I liked some of DS9 I always thought Babylon 5 was better because of the complete story. Paramount passed on Babylon 5 in 1989 but may have incorporated some of the ideas there into DS9 according to some.
They ran in parallel (time-wise / both began in 1993) and, other than being set on a space station, if looked at in depth, were not very similar...
Besides, you look at human fashion and think Mollari was weird?