rating represent 4 out of 10as this mini series approach and and we be well aware of it for the last six month a sci fi channel continue to pepper their show with bg ad and i confess that i felt a grow unease a i learn more . a with any work of cinematic art which have stand up to some test of time and different people go to it to see different thing . in this regard and when people think of battlestar galactica and they remember different thing . for some it be the chromium warrior with the oscillate red light in their visor . for others and it be the fondness that they hold for special effect that be quite evolutionary for their time . many forget the state of special effect during the late 70 and especially those on television . for some the memory resolve around the story arc . others still remember the relationship how how the relationship themselves help overcome the challenge that they face . frankly and i come from the latter group . the core of battlestar galactica be the people that pull together to save one another from an evil empire . yes and evil . the cylons have nothing to gain but the extermination of the human race yet they do it . while base star be swirl around and men and woman come together to face an enemy with virtually unlimited resource and and somehow they manage to survive until the next show . they do not survive because they have good technology and or more fire power . they survive because they care for and trust each other to get through to the next show . the show have it flaw and and at time be sappy and but they be people you could care about . the writer of this current rendition seem to never understand this . in some way he take the least significant part of the original show and the character name and a take on the story arc and craft what they call nothing less than a reinvention of television science fiction . since that be their goal and they can be judge on how well they accomplish it represent failure . it be far from a reinvention . in fact it be in many way one of the most derivitive of science fiction endeavor in a long time . it borrow liberally from st representtng and st representds9 and babylon 5 and and even battlefield earth . i find that unfortunate . ronald d. moore have be a contributor to popular science fiction for more than a decade and and have make contribution to some of the most popular television science fiction that you could hope to see . one of the difficulty that he appear to have have be that there could be no conflict in the bridge crew of the enterprise d and e. that be the inviolable rule of roddenberry st representtng . like many who have live under that rule of others who then take every opportunity to break the rule when they be no longer under that authority and ron moore seem to have forget some of the lesson he learn under the acknowledged science fiction master represent gene roddenberry . here and instead of write the best story possible and he have create a dysfuntional cast a i have ever see with the intent of create as much cast conflict a he could . besides be dysfunctional and some of it be not the least bit believable . anyone who have ever be in the military know that someone unprovokedly strike a superior officer would not get just a couple of day in hack and they could have get execution and and they never would have get out the next day . it wouldn not have happen and period and especially in time of war . the thing that i remember most of ron moore earlier work be that he be the one who pen the death of capt . james kirk . he kill capt . kirk and and and ala for me and he have kill battlestar galactica .