BSG: Ethics
Nov 10 2006, 21:47 EST [updated Nov 10 2006, 22:09 EST]
If you aren't familiar with the Sci-Fi channel show "Battle Star Galactica" your should be because it is a damned fine show. The content varies from passable to great so the great largely plasters over the merely passable. The premise is that in the past humans created a race of artificially intelligent beings, then fought a war with them, and finally came to a truce. The show starts long after the truce when the Cylons (the AIs) show up and kill billions of people. The thirty thousand human escapees of genocide are the protagonists of the show.
To recap:
- The enemy breaks a truce and during a pogrom accidentally leaves one-one-millionth of the intended victims alive
- Wipe out the race that gleefully killed 99.99999% of your race, only accidentally leaving survivors.
- Worry that if you kill the enemy bent on the extinction of you and the last 0.00001 of your race you will be just as bad as them.
The good news is that the writers have only occasional fits of lecturing and otherwise write people very well. Keep watching, I will be.
(the bad news is that the writers are lecturing much more often and with a heavier cudgel. They have proven they have the stuff regardless so I have hope they will even out).