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I always preferred Babylon 5's handling of societies, they weren't monolithic or such. In particular when Sinclair introduced Earth's belief systems. http://yo
by Shivetya 12y ago
I always preferred Babylon 5's handling of societies, they weren't monolithic or such. In particular when Sinclair introduced Earth's belief systems. http://youtu.be/uvmtHGwRSuQ http://youtu.be/uvmtHGwRSuQ While many alien races were not always show as diverse there was enough internal strife in the majors to show major differences.
- krapp 12y agoDeep Space Nine managed to flesh out the cultures of a lot of alien species as well because of its arc-based format (unsurprisingly, it was accused of being a B5 ripoff when it started.) A lot of Trek fans seem not to like it for that reason, though - when you introduce complexity, you also introduce moral ambiguity, and Star Trek's utopian vision of humanity was traditionally unambiguous about portraying humans as morally and ethically unchallenged. Of course, that the aliens on Star Trek served as thin allegories for the less enlightened traits of humanity was probably the point.