You might want to go watch that stuff again before you make your mind up.
It is still impressive however that some of these amiga + lightwave effects were done with 12MB of RAM.
It is still impressive however that some of these amiga + lightwave effects were done with 12MB of RAM.
So I have to ask whether you're using a modern TV and perhaps what your media source for B5 is. Because, frankly, most aspects of B5 pretty objectively haven't aged well (the elevator scene is one exception), and the FX renders are especially bad, at least from the DVD box set.
I fully believe it looked incredible at the time on a standard def CRT. But TNG still looks OK and DS9 looks good.
I've watched B5 on CRT and various LCD. The station monitors obviously aged poorly, but a lot of ships still looked pretty good. Minbari Sharlin, White star...etc.