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What ideas and items have Berman and Braga stpolen over the years for Star Trek? I believe one is the holographic character lkike Rimmer from Red Dwarf
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There is nothing in media sci-fi that hasn't been done in book SF years if not decades earlier--and genreally better, too. Bozo and Binhead are no more and no less ripoff artists than every other scifi TV producer out there.
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Typhonis 1 wrote:What ideas and items have Berman and Braga stpolen over the years for Star Trek? I believe one is the holographic character lkike Rimmer from Red Dwarf
DS9. JMS alleged and has always maintained that the orginal treatment of B5 was used as a guide in creating and making DS9. He had submitted it to Paramount while looking for a distributor/financer. DS9's set up almost perfectly matches the setup for that early incarnation of B5.
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Typhonis 1 wrote:What ideas and items have Berman and Braga stpolen over the years for Star Trek? I believe one is the holographic character lkike Rimmer from Red Dwarf
The whole lost in space idea that was central to Voyager was stolen from "Lost in Space." The breen look like leia from the early scenes of ROTJ, and I'm sure there is plenty more.
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I always wonder why ST was so repetitive.... now I know.

What year did B&B took over Star Trek?

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Soontir C'boath wrote:I always wonder why ST was so repetitive.... now I know.

What year did B&B took over Star Trek?

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I think it was 1992 when Gene Rodenberry died
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Isolder74 wrote:
Soontir C'boath wrote:I always wonder why ST was so repetitive.... now I know.

What year did B&B took over Star Trek?

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I think it was 1992 when Gene Rodenberry died

Not that Gene was above repeating things. At least his most obvious instance he repeated himself (Star Trek: The Motion Picture)
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Much of the franchise was already in Berman's hands before Roddenberry died and I believe that Braga came involved in production a bit later than that.
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Either they stole it, or they did it as a tribute to other sci-fi. I think there are other instances, probably more prevalent in Voyager or Enterprise.
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