# I've just discovered Battlestar Gallactica

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**Created:** [January 11, 2019, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-just-discovered-battlestar-gallactica/827602 "2019-01-11T17:36:30Z")\
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Another thing that they did very well was the limited supplies. When they fire off a nuke against a Cylon ship, it’s a big deal, because they don’t have very many of those, and when they’re gone, they’re gone. Compare to _Star Trek: Voyager_, where they told us explicitly how many irreplaceable photon torpedoes they had, then fire off three times that many over the course of the show.

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**Post date:** [July 16, 2019, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-just-discovered-battlestar-gallactica/827602/122 "2019-07-16T19:58:16Z")

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> [@shstrang98](#):
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> I liked it at the start but it quickly turned into a “lets make a story line that reflects current events” fare.

It seems to me that it started as a story about [religious fundamentalists attacking a technologically advanced multicultural civilization](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks).

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