# Star Trek:TNG "Sub Rosa" - Ripoff of Anne Rice or original as claimed?

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**Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-tng-sub-rosa-ripoff-of-anne-rice-or-original-as-claimed/528779/9 "2010-02-13T12:42:37Z")

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> [@Peter\_Morris](#):
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> cite? According to IMDB records DS9 was over a year before B5.Abd I think it had its plot arc planned out from the start.

Paramount had his [series bible](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylon_5#Star_Trek:_Deep_Space_Nine_controversy).

Really if you look at DS9 it was nothing like any of the trek before it and it makes a lot more sense if you see it as inspired by the plot outline of Babylon 5 not as an outgrowth of Trek.

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