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Three science fiction television series stand head and shoulders above all the rest: StarTrek (the original and all its derivatives), Babylon 5, and Battlestar Galactica. Firefly had potential to join this elite group, but was much too short-lived. The focus of this article is on Battlestar, since the series is entering its final season.
The current Battlestar Galactica is a superb science fiction series. No, that is too weak a statement; Battlestar Galactica may be the best dramatic show on the tube, regardless of genre. In 2006, BG won the Peabody Award, a first for the SciFi Channel. Time Magazine called it one of the top shows on television and described it as a ripping sci-fi allegory of the war on terror, complete with religious fundamentalists, sleeper cells, civil liberties crackdowns and even a prisoner torture scandal.
BG premiered in 2003 as a miniseries, loosely based on a show of the same name that ran on television in the late seventies. While the original was a popcorn series, the current BG deals with real issues in times of war. This article introduces the series to those who are not regular viewers, and then describes one of the difficult issues it addresses.
The story begins with a devastating attack by intelligent androids (Cylons) that wipes out almost the entire human race except for a few hundred soldiers who escape on Battlestar Galactica, an aging but still powerful military spaceship, and somewhat fewer than fifty thousand civilians in a rag tag collection of ships. BG protects the civilians from the Cylons, who are determined to complete the elimination of humanity. The objective of the humans is to evade the Ceylons and find the mythical planet Earth, which has great religious significance to these people.
The primary characters are Commander William Adama (Edward James Almos), the disciplined, unrelenting military leader; President Laura Roslin (Mary McDonnell), the pragmatic, newly elected civilian who becomes increasingly devout and charismatic during the journey; and Kara (Starbuck) Thrace (Katee Sackhoff), a loud, immature but expert Viper pilot who may have a special destiny in the search for Earth. The most interesting character is Gaius Baltar, brilliantly portrayed by James Callis, a scientist with a genius level intellect, but also arrogant, untrustworthy and sexually promiscuous.
This article explores how torture of the enemy was depicted on the show, and how that relates to our war with the forces of terror. Is it permissible to torture under certain circumstances, but not others? And what is torture, anyway?
The episode which really illustrates the torture issue is Flesh and Bone, where the humans have captured Leoben, a Cylon who has planted a nuclear bomb somewhere in the fleet, which he claims will explode in nine hours. Starbuck has responsibility for the interrogation, and she is told to do whatever she needs to do to locate the bomb. After all, the Cylons are not human.
Starbuck is brutal; the guards beat and waterboard Leoben, but he does not crack. Roselin joins the interrogation and stops the harsh treatment. Apparently trusting Roselin, Leoben admits that the bomb was a hoax, a bad move. With nothing to fear, Roselin has him flushed out an airlock into space. He was too dangerous, in her opinion, to keep alive. Starbuck has misgivings about their actions, and she prays for the Cylon.
This episode is a metaphor for the war between the western nations and Islamic fundamentalists. Consider this situation: FBI agents capture an Al Qaeda leader and search his computer, where they find a plan to explode a bomb (not nuclear) in an American city, but the plan does not name the specific city or the time the bomb is set to go off. The senior FBI agent is ordered to interrogate the prisoner, but the agent fails to obtain the necessary information through conventional interrogation. Then the agent is told the President has authorized waterboarding, even though legally it is a form of torture. Should the agent do it?
The prisoner claims the computer was just delivered to him yesterday, and he knows nothing about a bomb, except for what is described in the plan. Is it permissible to torture a prisoner when the FBI does not know for sure if he has the information? On the other hand, when will the FBI ever know for sure? If they waterboard him, are they any better than the enemy? But should they allow a bomb to kill hundreds of people rather than torture the truth from the prisoner? And anyway, is waterboarding really torture? It does not cause any permanent damage, right?
What should the FBI do? Waterboard or not?
Dan Ronco is a writer of technology thrillers and near future science fiction. PeaceMaker, his first novel, was published in 2004 and his second, Unholy Domain, was released April 2, 2008. Dan mixes visionary ideas with a touch of romance and humor. Learn more about Dan at danronco.com.
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Finding Battlestar Galactica (Paperback) $10.8 Provides a look at the history, politics, themes, philosophies, and characters of this popular television series with topics such as "Positions of Power," "Battlestar and the Bush Era," and "Thirty Years of Battlestar Fandom." Original. (A SciFi Channel television series, starring Edward James Olmos, Mary McDonnell, Jamie Bamber, Tricia Helfer, James Callis, Grace Park, Katee Sackhoff, and others). (Performing Arts) |
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