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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Sol System: [QB] OK, I saw this and it was OK, and I had a few thoughts. Obviously they're playing up the issue of political legitimacy. Which is neat. But I wonder; they've got an executive branch, but what about a legislature? Presumably the various bylaws of the Colonies provide for the emergency reconstitution of whatever sort of legislature they have. (Well, presuming they do have one, but they're pretty Western in all the other political senses, so I can only assume they do.) The thing is, those usually depend on their being other, surviving governmental bodies available to appoint new leaders, or to arrange for their election. I know there was a civilian council of some sort in the original show, but I don't remember how they were organized. If political continuity is what they want to preserve, then their legislative body probably consists of some number of representatives from each colony. (Maybe fewer from the colony which nobody likes, I guess.) But those representatives are probably appointed, in emergencies, by smaller, local governments, none of which exist anymore. Or what if they've got a system similar to the U.S. House of Representatives, with each colony getting X representatives per every X x 10,000 citizens, or what have you. There might not be enough survivors from each colony. Now that's just an example; my point being that no matter what the rules are, some of them will probably have to be bent or broken to get a complete government in place. On the other hand, it seems kind of odd to represent colonial governments which no longer exist. A handful of people from one colony scattered across a dozen different ships don't really have much in the way of "local" concerns in common. For these people, the most logical governmental subdivision is the ship. But I doubt there's any provision in their aforementioned bylaws for what to do in case all their planets blow up. So, anyway, it would be interesting to see how that is handled. Or, at least, it would be interesting to me. Re the episode: How come that city hadn't been leveled? I guess there is something in it that the Cylons want, maybe. (Normally this would be where people make their own interesting speculations, but in this case I suppose someone could say exactly what the deal turns out to be, so, uh, if that is so, please consider my questions rhetorical.) [/QB][/QUOTE]
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