The interesting thing about the Galactica universe -- the 2003 version, that is -- is that there are no aliens, just humans and human-created Cylons (which have become essentially human themselves).
The problem with all imagined universes is that they all have imperfections and lapses that make them impossible. Technologies are at once too reflective of the limitations of the world in which they are imagined, while at the same time violating laws of physics; characters change their natures improbably as demanded by plot; and there is never enough of the universe described to make it feel complete.
There's also the whole religious element of Galactica, but that's a topic for another time.
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Date: 2011-02-26 06:13 am (UTC)The problem with all imagined universes is that they all have imperfections and lapses that make them impossible. Technologies are at once too reflective of the limitations of the world in which they are imagined, while at the same time violating laws of physics; characters change their natures improbably as demanded by plot; and there is never enough of the universe described to make it feel complete.
There's also the whole religious element of Galactica, but that's a topic for another time.