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B5 went much, much darker than DS9, right from the start. But it's still a silly (and occasionally tiresomely whimsical) SF show; like all of them, you have to decide to set aside some critical objections to get into it.
That said, most Star Trek shows feel to me as if they were designed by focus groups. They also have a syrupy way of raising and solving difficult social issues in a single episode, with a few obvious bad guys and everyone else the absolute good. Wesley Crusher: "Mom, why did people used to take drugs?" Fuck off and die, Wesley. DS9 was still mostly like that, even if a bit better than usual. I'll take the show where fascists have taken over the government, genocidal murderers can get a pass if their research is useful and rogue federal agencies are selling drugs for their own purposes.