seePea – I agree completely that IV and V are the best of the lot, and that V is right up there as one of the best genre films of all time (not to mention perhaps one of cinema’s best ever plot twists). It all went downhill from there, I’m afraid.
I liked DS9 because it had a sweeping storyline and wasn’t as judgemental as TNG when it came to it’s characters – there was grey everywhere, including the idealistic Federation. DS9 wasn’t afraid to get down and dirty if it needed to. Of course, Babylon 5 would be a step up from that. The creator of Babylon 5 originally pitched Paramount with his idea, Paramount liked the concept but didn’t like him, and then JM Straczynski went to Warner Brothers and got them to do it. When both DS9 and B5 were on the air it was probably the high point of SciFi on TV, IMHO.
