At the risk of sounding as egotistical as Gaius Baltar, this Battlestar Galactica spinoff idea has a little something for everyone: new stories, familiar ships, and endless narrative potential.

And in a real world still coming to terms with 9/11 and George W Bush's subsequent "War on Terror", "Battlestar Galactica" dared to ask difficult questions that most Earthbound dramas were still ...