Quote Originally Posted by Hazir View Post
Like in BSG the whole human political debate about the need to continue a fully working state with a balance of power and elections. The idiocy of that in a society counting less people than in a decent sized polis was too much.
I agree with you here. And they carried it right through the whole show, like the labor unrest on that shitty world they tried to colonize. Completely implausible. Now, that said, I don't doubt for a moment there would be wrangling for power, but it would not involve elections or the luxury of social structures like labor unions. That survivor fleet would be a fierce military dictatorship, because it would HAVE to be with extinction around every corner. And the survivors would welcome it, because they'd be terrified and traumatized out of their minds of the Cylons 100% of the time and reeling from the death of most everyone they knew and loved and their near complete removal from all the aspects of civilization they knew - like jobs, homes, schools, cities, history, nature, culture, on and on. Nobody would be pissed off because Admiral Adama didn't let them vote about how water or medicine was distributed around the fleet. Probably the biggest problem that fleet would have is avoiding mass suicide and complete despair - and elections wouldn't do that. But then, a true portrayal of the apocalypse in space was not what the show was conceived to be, entirely, about, so, yeah.