Never apply a Star Trek solution to a Babylon 5 problem

Anyway, what does it mean? Here are two possibilities that occur to me:

(1) Star Trek is a bit more idealized and Babylon 5 is more gritty, 'realistic', what have you.

(2) Star Trek mostly has to wrap up plot lines in a single episode, whereas Babylon 5 had 5 years to work out consequences and implications of choices made by the characters.

So the way I read this is that 'real-world' problems need deeper solutions than the writers of Star Trek could fit in. (I like both shows, but I distinguish them from 'reality'!).

Case in point: And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place.

This may also be a reference to the Star Trek: TNG (and beyond) writers' penchant for basing solutions on creatively-worded technobabble, in contrast to the real-world, personal grounding of most Babylon 5 resolutions.

example:

TNG: "We'll rewire the impulse flux capacitors to create an inverse tachyon pulse which should easily solve this episode's near-lethal problem!"

B5: "We'll bring the two sides to the negotiating table again, and after five episodes worth of assassinations, heated arguments, and military fleets appearing at inopportune moments, we'll reach a resolution that is just barely acceptable to everyone, at least until three episodes down the timeline when it will all fall to pieces."

So a specifically-worded example of this law in practice might be "A quasi-symmetric graviton polarity beam will be ineffective and counterproductive when used in an effort to convince the Centauri Republic to end its collaboration with the Shadows."