Daniel Solove, Devan Desai and David Hoffman have begun posting what looks to be quite an interesting hour-long interview with David Eick and Ronald Moore, the creators of the “re-imagined” Battlestar Galactica, on legal systems, torture, politics and economy, and – for lack of a better term – Cylon sociology at Concurring Opinions.
Our interview is structured in three parts. Part I, available today in two files (see the end of this post to download), focuses on the issues of legal systems and morality. It examines the lawyers and trials in the show. It also examines how torture is depicted, as well as how the humans must balance civil liberties and security.
Part II examines politics and commerce. It explores how the cylon attack affected the humans’ political system, and it examines how commerce works in the fleet.
Part III examines issues related to cylons, such as the humans’ treatment of cylons, how robots should be treated by the law, how the cylons govern themselves politically. Additionally, Part III will explore the religious issues involved in the show.
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