The funniest part of all is that when BSG was on the air I thought for sure it was a better DS9 with more allowances for the dark and gritty stuff I so often enjoy. And while it's certainly true that BSG was the darker and the grittier of the pair (although DS9 got pretty damn surprisingly dark at times...) DS9 was just the better-made overall and hosted a much more satisfying finale.
BSG and DS9 have largely the same central production staff, you see. Ron Moore, Rene Echevarria, Bradley Thompson, David Weddle, the list goes on. You can definitely see a lot of rehashes in BSG and they're not from the old 1978 BSG, they're from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. But the relatively less convoluted storytelling of the Trek variant proved the better of the two quality-wise in my opinion.
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