Babylon 5 |
Star Trek |
Commonality |
Commander Jeffrey Sinclair |
Commander Benjamin Sisko (with son Jake Sisko). |
Commander J.S. |
A veteran of the battle of the line. |
A veteran of the battle at Wolf 359 |
Both commanders are veterans in a recent battle/war. |
Female first officer Susan Ivanova |
Female first officer Kira Nerys |
First officer: Female. Very strong character |
Centauri Empire occupied Narn |
The Cardassian Empire occupied Bajor |
One world occupied another in the past. |
A Jumpgate to other parts of the Galaxy |
A wormhole between the Alpha and the Delta Quadrant of the galaxy |
A device that connects two separate places in the universe. |
Security chief Michael Garibaldi |
Security chief Michael Eddington |
A security chief named Michael |
Lyta |
Leeta |
Attractive women with similar names |
A changeling net to alter ones appearance |
Changelings, shape shifters |
Device/gift to alter the appearance |
Carolyn Sikes, female freighter captain. Love interest of the lead character. |
Cassidy Yates, female freighter captain. Love interest of the lead character |
Female freighter captain. Love interest of the lead character |
G'Kar hates Centauri |
Kira hates Cardassians |
One of the lead characters hates a world that once occupied their own |
Destiny of Sinclair |
Destiny of Sisko |
Both have destinies that seem to be set in stone. |
A leader named Dukhat (of Minbar) |
A Cardassian leader named Gul Dukat |
Characters in leading positions, both named similar. |
Catch phrase: 'Hello old Friend' |
Catch phrase: 'Hello old man' |
Both phrases uttered by the leading character. |
Sinclair asked old friend Garibaldi for that post. |
Sisko asked old friend Dax for that post. |
The lead character asked an old friend for the post on the station. |
The First Ones |
The Prophets and the Pah Wraiths |
Older races, very powerful still influence things. |
Cryptic Vorlon |
Cryptic Prophets |
Powerful beings, always talking in a cryptic manner |
Home guard? |
Essentialist movement? |
Maybe |
Mystical elements (such as the 'soul orbs' |
The orbs of the prophets |
Elements that seem more mystical than scientific |
Vorlons vs. Shadows |
Prophets vs. Pah Wraiths |
A war between old and powerful opponents |
Unresolved issues between Susan Ivanova and her dying father |
Unresolved issues between Kira Nerys and her dead father |
The strong female second in command has certain unresolved issues with her father |
The command staff is being questioned by a higher authority to investigate the commander |
The commander is being investigated for his actions during 'Trials and Tribble-ations' |
Higher authorities are questioning the lead character's actions. |
Discovery of the Great Machine |
Discovery of The Celestial Temple |
A unknown alien device of great power is discovered |
Minbari religion |
Bajoran religion |
Two important cultures with specific deep spiritual sides. |
Babylon 4 gets transported through time and space |
Time travel happenings in general. |
Time travel happenings in general. |
The One |
The Sisko |
A lead character is being named in an unusual manner |
Zathras |
Rom |
Short guy is a technical genius and under appreciated. |
Political plots. Assassination of the president |
Coup attempt in Starfleet. |
Dark machinations to manipulate the highest levels of government. |
Minbari souls born in humans. Humans are of Minbari. |
We / you are of Bajor. |
Revelations towards origins of lead characters of sorts. |
Invisible monster in 'The Long Dark' |
Odo turns into a monster |
Unknown things 'that go bump in the night' |
Freedom movement on Mars |
The Maquis |
A resistance movement |
Bureau 13 |
Section 31 |
A secret government agency. Very dubious. |
Political intrigues on Centauri |
Political intrigues on Cardessia. |
A (former) aggressor is still up to no good. |
Experiments done on Sheridan |
Experiments performed on crew Enterprise D |
Lead characters are used in experiments |
Londo gets shunned by his friends for his actions |
Quark gets shunned for his association with gun dealers |
A popular guy does bad things and gets shunned by his friends |
The Vorlon Ship |
Tin man |
Organic spacecraft |
Babearlon 5 (stuffed animal) |
Captain Picard Doll |
Leading characters are embarrassed by (Childs) toys. |
A life form tries to get home (Knives) |
A life form tries to get home (Lonely Among Us). |
A life form performs 'evil' acts in order to get home. |
Centaury opera |
Klingon opera |
Warrior cultures with a musical (opera) side. |
Baseball |
Baseball |
Both commanders have a love for baseball |
Commander gets replaced by Captain John Sheridan |
Commander gets promoted to Captaincy |
A movement to a higher rank |
Confessions and Lamentations |
The Quickening |
A decease wiped out an entire race. With on 'The Quickening' hope for the young. |
Ivanova loved Talia |
Dax meets a former lover |
Lesbian suggestion. |
The Centauri retake Narn |
The Cardassians retake DS9/Terok Nor. And have the ambition to retake Bajor |
A former conqueror returns to retake lost territory. |
Non-aggression pact between Centauri and Earth |
Non-aggression pact between the Dominion and the Romulans |
An aggressive power makes peace with one other power to have their hand free. |
Mines around Zagras 7 |
Mines around wormhole (and several other places) |
Mines in space to isolate or protect |
Sheridan gets the White star in season 3. |
Sisko gets the Defiant in season 3. |
The lead character gets a new super ship. |
Bomber terrorist on the lose. |
Assassin early on in Star Trek Deep Space Nine (Bajoran fundamentalist). |
Political murder plots. |
Humans receiving symbiots |
Trill, creatures from 'Conspiracy' |
Symbiotic life forms. Some benevolent, others not. |
Babylon 5 breaks away |
Star Trek Insurrection |
The lead characters openly defy a higher authority. |
Altered telepaths with cybernetic Shadow technology. |
The Borg. |
People are enhanced against their will to serve others. |
'War Without End' |
Time travel in Star Trek |
Time travel themes in both shows. |
A part of Kosh is in Sheridan |
Spock's Katra is in McCoy. |
(Part) of an alien 'soul' inside a lead character. |
The return of Sheridan after his death. |
The return of Sisko, after Jadzia' s death. |
The lead character returns after a tragic event. |
Sheridan gives orders knowingly sending people to their deaths,and manipulates others to join the alliance |
Sisko commits crimes to manipulate the Romulans into the war. |
The lead character gets his hands dirty in order to do what is necessary. |
Shadows appear as familiar people. |
The Wormhole beings appear as familiar people |
Power beings show themselves in the form of familiar people. |
Garibaldi commits treason |
Eddington commits treason and joins The Maquis. |
The security chief named Michael betrays the lead character. |
Delenn confronts her past. |
Kira confronts her mother's past. |
Power female leads face ugly things that were done in the past. |
Friendship between Doctor Franklin and Marcus |
Friendship between Doctor Bashir and chief O'Brien. |
Friendship between the doctor and a more down to Earth type of character |
Marcus wanting Susan Ivanova |
Bashir wanting Jadzia, and Odo wanting Kira |
A male lead character loves a female character that does not love in return. |
Commander (Captain) Susan Ivanova is replaced by Captain Elizabeth Lochley |
Jadzia Dax dies and is replaced by Ezri Dax |
A beautiful female lead is replaced by another equally beautiful female lead. |
'A view from the Gallery' |
'The Lower Decks', Miles O'Brien. |
A look at personal of a lower rank / repair men. |
The Drakh fill the place of the Shadows |
The Breen fill the place of the Cardassians |
At the end a new enemy replaces an old one. |
The Fall of Centauri Prime |
The Fall of Cardessia |
A powerful empire relives a glorious past, only to be defeated in the end. |
In the end everybody goes his or her own way. |
In the end everybody goes his or her own way. |
In the end everybody goes his or her own way. |
Soul hunter containers |
The receptacles of Sargon's people |
Globes with 'souls' |