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* ''[[Star Trek Deep Space Nine]]'' has a similar premise to''[[Babylon Five]]''. ''Deep Space Nine'' has a number of parallels to ''Babylon 5'' above and beyond the station premise, including but not limited to the jumpgate/wormhole, a race who rebelled against its more-advanced alien oppressors and eventually threw them off their planet, a group of [[Sufficiently Advanced Alien|Sufficiently Advanced Aliens]] who were using religion to influence more primitive peoples, a station commander who {{spoiler|becomes a key figure in an alien religion}} [[Because Destiny Says So|in fulfillment of prophecy]], a former imperialistic power trying to regain their old territory, a bone-ridge-headed alien race who were former-enemies-turned-allies with humanity, a snarky and cynical head of security with guilt about his shameful past, an idealistic young doctor who has issues with his father, a prototype Earth-made warship that's smaller and more powerful than the huge battle cruisers that make up most of the human fleet, a human government that hid corruption behind a veil of supposed Utopianism, and a long-term plot that included a war against a powerful and previously-unknown enemy who can hide almost anywhere. No one can say for sure, but for many ''B5'' partisans, the fact that creator [[J Michael Straczynski]] unsuccessfully pitched ''Babylon 5'' to [[Paramount]] only a few months before Paramount announced ''Deep Space Nine'' is a very large smoking gun.

** The ''Deep Space Nine'' partisans, of course, will respond by pointing out that Bajorans, Cardassians, and their relationship had already been established by ''[[Star Trek the Next Generation]]'', that many of these elements were added to ''Deep Space Nine'' late enough in its run that it's stretching things to imply that they were all taken from the original pitch, and that many of them are a lot less suspicious than the description tries to make it sound (the humans make a [[Super Prototype]]? only Straczynski could have thought of that!).

*** In an interview, JMS spoke of an encounter with an unnamed ''Deep Space Nine'' castmember early in the run of both shows. This castmember told him that "Our show could not exist without your show. Best of luck to you."

* Already ''Fringe'' is looking suspiciously similar to ''[[Strange World]]'' and that is just from the advertisements.

** Also, the video game ''Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness'' has been panned for recycling the same premise, world, and villains of ''Pokemon Colosseum.''

* The [[South Park]] [[The Movie|Movie]] was basically an expanded, musical version of the episode "Death". Both involve Terrence & Phillip, [[Take That|potshots]] at [[Moral Guardians]] and scapegoating, and Kyle's mom taking her activism [[Up to Eleven]].

** Worth noting that Rockstar began developing ''Manhunt'' as an adaptation of the film ''[[The Warriors (Film)|The Warriors]]'', but were unable to get the rights to it. Also, unlike ''The Running Man'', ''Manhunt'' is set in the present day.

* ''Bioshock'' is a remake of ''System Shock 2,'' fueled by Objectivist propaganda.

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