No destructive love affairs, no chafing under authority, minimal arrogance to put your fellow crew members at risk.
Interpersonal tensions are relics of a more savage age. Scarcity, borders, money, and culture have all ceased to exist. The injuries of race and class and gender have been surmounted, if not forgotten altogether. Machines called replicators can produce absolutely anything you want, so the economics of inequity are gone. Interstellar globalization has brought us new technologies to make transportation and translation effortless. Star Trek takes place in a world where all the ugly things about human existence have been erased. Fundamentally, it boils down to this: Star Trek is about who we want to be, and Battlestar Galactica is about who we are.
Star Trek and Battlestar Galactica have wildly different aesthetics and ideologies, and both aspire to very different goals. Why do we love it so much? We call each other up after each new episode and ramble in nervous high-pitched voices, batting back and forth theories and questions and 'OH MY GOD'� moments'¦ all the while feeling vaguely guilty that no Star Trek clash with the Borg or tampering with the time-space continuum ever engaged and obsessed and haunted us to such a profound extent. One has to be worthy of surviving.'�īattlestar Galactica presents a problem for me and my Star Trek-fan friends.
