The United Nations already feels like its own alternate universe -- one snatched from the 1970s, with its retro-disco architectural design and Swingtown decor -- but when I walked into the assembly room where Sci Fi and the UN's Department of Public Information was holding a Battlestar Galactica retrospective, the illusion was sealed: In front of each of the 200-plus delegate seats (you know, the ones with the mics and the translator ear thingies) was a placard from each of the 12 Colonies of Kobol.
Sci Fi turned the United Nations into the Quorum of Twelve. Which may be the third coolest thing I've ever seen.
While the idea of the UN hosting a retrospective on Battlestar Galactica might sound a little odd, as the night went on it started to make perfect sense. From the very beginning, BSG has dealt with moral issues -- what it means to be human, the rule of law vs. the military might, the arguable merits of armed insurgency -- issues which find themselves on the UN's docket almost every day. As Robert Orr, the Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Planning put it, "You've got people thinking about issues that we try and get people thinking about every day."
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