Battlestar philosophica.

• Author: Suderman, Peter
• Position: Briefly Noted - Brief article

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When Ronald D. Moore's reimagined version of the hokey '70s TV series Battlestar Galactica wrapped up this year, it all but abdicated responsibility for many of its major plot threads, leaving many fans lost in space. But despite its baffling finale, the four-season show, now available as a complete series on DVD, had a lot to offer.

The premise was your basic post-apocalyptic robots-chasing-humans story, but the show was more complicated than that. At its best, it investigated with care and intelligence the institutions that define a strong, moral civil...