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ACROSS THE UNIVERSE.(Battlestar Galactica)(Television Program Review)

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It's easy for people who aren't science- fiction enthusiasts to laugh at the genre--its earnestness, its lingo, its fans' awestruck romance with the idea that God is in the details of equipment and uniforms and security codes and how many moons orbit Planet X and why it's called Planet X in the first place. Does it have something to do with the number ten, or is it meant to be a leaning cross, or is it a reference to the mark on Captain Blah's forehead in the second episode of the third season of "Star Bores"? (Usually, a writer's answer to such questions is "I called it Planet X because I liked the name.") Making fun of science fiction became even easier after William ...

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