It thereby convincingly dispelled the widely held belief by Hollywood studios that television audiences lacked the attention span to remain interested in a science fiction series format thus conceived – or in any other serialized television programming with complex storytelling for that matter. The series was widely acclaimed for its ambitious writing, much of it by Straczynski himself, who endeavored to tell a complex, predetermined epic story arc, in the form of the Shadow War(s), over the series' entire run, as opposed to the episodic or two-part story format until then employed for science fiction television series. Like Star Trek, there have been several attempts to create viable spinoff properties, including six made-for-TV movies and the short-lived series Crusade, featuring Daniel Dae Kim, Marjean Holden, and Tracy Scoggins. It was the first truly successful American futuristic, modern space-oriented science fiction television series outside Star Trek and therefore the first serious contender with the Star Trek franchise, which until then had pretty much the run of the science fiction television landscape since it had been relaunched in 1987 with Star Trek: The Next Generation. The primary series ran from 26 January 1994 to 25 November 1998 after its pilot episode was broadcast on 22 February 1993. 5 Production personnel who have worked on both franchises.4 Actors who have appeared in Star Trek and Babylon 5.2 Babylon 5 and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
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