Babylon 5: An Influential Space Western
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He has a clever take on it, but the Western genre is really a standard literary plot with specific trappings. Selling Star Trek disingenuously as Wagon Train in space got Roddenberry what he wanted but he never had that as his main idea for story lines. B5 certainly had plenty of these plot lines but nothing could be compared to the Star Trek episode where the gang got to relive the shootout at the OK Corral. Same with Firefly — definitely a Western sensibility layered on to a plot line of lawless trafficking and wild exploration in a shaky old covered wagon/ship.
Wasn’t the original Buck Rogers sold in precisely this way?
Cheers! Michael