I was recently looking through Firstones.com and saw that there was a proposed crossover between Star Trek and Babylon5. Don't know the validity of this claim but it seems like it would be an impossibility to mix the two.
I have some major issues with the idea and realize that my word matters little regarding any decisions to merge the two ... but what do the rest of you think?
Here are the problems I saw:
1. Babylon 5 storylines rarely resorted to DEUX EX MACHINA endings. Trek stories are infamous for the 'reconfigure the warp plasma coils' to fix the plot complication".
2. Totally different histories for Earth.
3. Totally different encounters that brought humans into space eg. Centauri giving us Jump Gate technology and Vulcans spotting Cochrans warp flight and visiting earth.
4. Really ... nothing seems to match between these two franchises. They are so intricately detailed that at some point, crossover history or story conflicts would create a contradiction in one or the others Universe ... if not both.
5. Star Trek does nothing for me personally. Well, perhaps years ago it did. I am a fan of the original series and of TNG ... but they lost me after that. DS9 and Voyager were Hollow in comparisson. B5 had spoiled me for wanting more in-depth stories and plots.
6. Star Trek characters are much less multi-faceted than Babylon 5 characters. I would say that Enterprise at least made an attempt at making the characetrs multi-dimensional ... but none of the other series made me feel that way.
7. Which will it be? A reset button at the end of every episode or an ongoing saga?
There may not even be such a crossover ... but if there is, these are some of the problems I forsee. Also, I do not post on recarts or read it ... so if I am covering an old topic ... my apologies. I didn't see this posted here, though it may have been talked about ... I wasn't about to spend 30 minutes searching archives to see if it had.
Please add your observations.
Thanks
I have some major issues with the idea and realize that my word matters little regarding any decisions to merge the two ... but what do the rest of you think?
Here are the problems I saw:
1. Babylon 5 storylines rarely resorted to DEUX EX MACHINA endings. Trek stories are infamous for the 'reconfigure the warp plasma coils' to fix the plot complication".
2. Totally different histories for Earth.
3. Totally different encounters that brought humans into space eg. Centauri giving us Jump Gate technology and Vulcans spotting Cochrans warp flight and visiting earth.
4. Really ... nothing seems to match between these two franchises. They are so intricately detailed that at some point, crossover history or story conflicts would create a contradiction in one or the others Universe ... if not both.
5. Star Trek does nothing for me personally. Well, perhaps years ago it did. I am a fan of the original series and of TNG ... but they lost me after that. DS9 and Voyager were Hollow in comparisson. B5 had spoiled me for wanting more in-depth stories and plots.
6. Star Trek characters are much less multi-faceted than Babylon 5 characters. I would say that Enterprise at least made an attempt at making the characetrs multi-dimensional ... but none of the other series made me feel that way.
7. Which will it be? A reset button at the end of every episode or an ongoing saga?
There may not even be such a crossover ... but if there is, these are some of the problems I forsee. Also, I do not post on recarts or read it ... so if I am covering an old topic ... my apologies. I didn't see this posted here, though it may have been talked about ... I wasn't about to spend 30 minutes searching archives to see if it had.
Please add your observations.
Thanks
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