Star Trek: Babylon 5

[doroanne]

Originally Posted by arewin

in any battle i would have thought in the exeption of the vorlons and shadows the startrek universe ships would win
they have shield and from what you see they have a hell of alot more ships to fight with
earthforce have like 300 destroyers at most +heavy warships
federation have like 1000 attackships
900 destroyers and loads of other classes of ships that could fight plus all of there shuttles have similar capabilities to the fighters of babylon 5

Right On! None of the B5 ships have anything that would stand up to the Star Trek universe shielding; and what do you mean they'd kick the Borg's butt? The Borg are very good at adapting, remember? There isn't anyway they could do anything against the Borg .. Borg can survive out in the open without environmental suits in the cold vacumm of space (remember in First Contact?).

doroanne

[nymike03]

Can't make it to ComicCon, but the cast of Babylon 5 and J. Michael Strazynski are coming to L.A. Creator J.Michael Stracxzynski and original cast members Bruce Boxleitner("President John Sheridan"), Tracy Scogins("Capt. Elizabeth Lochley")and Peter Woodward(Galen") will be greeting fans and signing copies of the DVD at Best Buy Hollywood on Tuesday, July 31, 2007 from 7:00-9:00 p.m. This exciting event is commemorating the release of Babylon 5: The Lost Tales on DVD. The Best Buy is located on 1015 N. La Brea Ave.West Hollywood, CA10038.

[Ehkzu]

Cute idea but seriously: the fundamental zeitgeists of both universes don't mix. Star Trek's universe is idealistic. People solve problems with words. Earth is at peace internally. Everything is squeaky-clean. Technology solves all. Feh.

B5's universe is messy, constantly warring, basically Yugoslavia apres-Tito writ large, as the former Yugoslavian babe actress who played Delenn once observed. And Earth is the primitives in all this--the ones whose spaceships needed centrifuges for gravity, instead of the benign quasioverlords of all but the Q (well, and the Borg).

FWIW the B5 universe is a lot closer to how things would turn out if FTL drives were possible.