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Author: WeAreAllKosh

Jan 12th 2013 at 10:57:05 PM

[[AC: Live-Action TV]]

* ''{{Babylon 5}}'' starts out with rather minor border skirmishes between the Centauri and Narn, some diplomatic tensions among other races, and an Earth Government moving slowly in a xenophobic direction. When [[BigBad the]] [[AbusivePrecursors Shadows]] reemerge into galactic affairs, they manipulate and cultivate these existing tensions into a galaxy-wide war among the younger races which escalates to an [[PlanetKiller apocalyptic]] scale. 
* ''{{Star Trek Deep Space Nine}}'' starts with the Federation taking over an old starbase from the Cardassians, who'd recently withdrawn from a long brutal occupation of the planet Bajor which the starbase orbits. The first couple seasons involve the rebuilding of Bajor and its various growing pangs of independence (and bitterness over its recent past), various initial character expositions, and some exploration through a wormhole recently discovered near the station. But a great power lay on the other side of that wormhole, which soon puts the whole Alpha Quadrant in jeopardy in the large-scale Dominion War.