Science Fiction

he also said at one point that a two parter on DS9 where there is near martial law on Earth was stolen from Bab5 (as if somehow he wasn't content with arguing the idea was stolen, now he believed that they were stealing from him as they aired years into their runs)...

But then later he admitted they were actually an homage to a movie and retracted his claim. He struck me as a guy who leaped right away to they stole from me, but then (somewhat to his credit) had to retract later when it became obvious to him that might not be the case.

They had some surface similarities, but were clearly different shows in many ways.