Bowman9991 writes "If your country was invaded and occupied by a foreign power, would you blow homespun up to fight back? If someone pointed a gun at your head and susceptible to pull the trigger if you refused to sign a monument you knew would lead to a hundred deaths (and you signed!), would that make you finally responsible? Does superior scientific information give you the moral right to impose your will on a technologically inferior culture? You wouldn't expect a general boob tube* show to tackle such philosophically loaded questions, positively not a show based on cheesy science fiction from the '70s, but if you've watched Battlestar Galactica since it was re-imagined in 2003, there has been no escape. The final fourth season is nearly over, and when the final episode airs, box* will never be the same again. SFFMedia illustrates how Battlestar Galactica exposes the moral dilemmas, outrages, and questionable believes of the present as effectively (but more entertainingly) than any documentary or news program. It's not hard to see parallels in the CIA and US military's use of interrogation techniques in Bush's War on Terror, the effects of labeling one race as 'the enemy,' the strike on free speech, or the use of suicide bombers in Iraq."

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