gaming Has Mass Effect Borrowed Heavily From The Babylon 5 TV Show?

[Denim&Venöm 19,113]

I noticed looking back upon the Babylon 5 TV series from the 90s, that it shared many, many a similarity with the mass effect games, more so than the games would with say Star Wars, Star Trek or Doctor Who. Enough to make a list. 

 

Both are set on an O'Neil cylinder space station used for interstellar diplomacy

 

 

Both have military protagonists, who die and come back to life

 

 

who make deals with higher beings, offering to sacrifice themselves to save the day

 

 

battling ancient threats returning to the galaxy

 

And their allies out for revenge

 

while dealing with the agenda's of a militant pro human faction running shady experiments

 

 

headed up by a mysterious villain

 

 

but is joined in the fight by:

 

aliens who waged war with humans but are now friends

 

 

Proud races that were given the shaft- 

 

due to interference from other more advanced races.

 

Ancient aliens who played a part in the early development of most of those races

 

Psychics who break off from said pro human shadow group

 

 

 

Who all travel the galaxy using relay machines

 

 

 

And who all partake in a massive climactic space final battle to decide the fate of the universe

 

 

Coincidence(s)? I think not. 

 

Though if ME did rip off B5, at least they decided to be subtle subtle about it.

 

 

 

edit: Ignore this topic everpony. It's a flawed duplicate. Proper one is already posted.