Mark’s Down On Your Syntax said:
You’re forgetting J. Michael Straczynski had pitched B5 to Paramount before DS9 was conceived.
Sounds reasonable, point withdrawn.
HUGE WINKY FACE.
Furthermore elements from the pilot script for B5 became major plot points for the whole duration of DS9. Like a character using a shape shifting device called a Changeling net to get revenge for a war started when a character called Dukhat was killed. The pilot even had Leeta in it DS9 didn’t even bother to hide it’s origins. When B5 got a defence grid upgrade and a state of the art ship in season 3 guess what happened on DS9? I just saw the first two episodes of Discovery. It’s the best Star Trek since 1979.