It was trying to do something entirely new - make a new flavor of sci-fi TV. With a budget of about a third of an average episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Babylon 5 wasn't just the Pepsi to the Coke of '90s Trek. ![]() This wasn't just because B5 was trying to be cool - it was because the show had serious budgetary limitations. Other than The Last Starfighter (which was supposed to look like a video game) and seaQuest (which hid the CGI submarine in murky CGI water), no other sci-fi series had attempted to go full CGI before B5. The first science fiction TV series to extensively use CGI for all spacecraft and space station exteriors was Babylon 5. ![]() ![]() In the nineties, CGI spaceships were punk AF.
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