BSG

[drakkenfyre]

I'm not suggesting I could have written a better finale for Battlestar Galactica. But there were a few things that really ruined it, and I would have changed those, if I could have.

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[mockingspike]

Galactica was a museum ship from the beginning, and the "All this has happened before and will happen again" theme might have fit well with that if some of the people had realized at the end that they'd actually been part of a living museum exhibit.

I think a society that developed resurrection technology would face a moral dilemma. Eventually they'd decide that it was wrong to have life without aging and death available to themselves but withheld from those who'd lived before them, in part because they'd developed the technology based on the work of those who came before them. A truly just society would be built on equality of opportunity and would apply moral principles universally, that is, not only over space, but over time as well. This would necessitate the recovery and resimulation of history and the resurrection of the dead. Unfortunately, the people from the past would be bloodthirsty savages relative to those who had escaped the cycle of violence. Those resurrected from earlier periods in history might be put in a controlled environment where they could prove themselves capable of integrating into a more advanced society.