“Part III: Starbuck as Post-Feminist” explores the question of the subject in Battlestar Galactica. The series involves an ensemble of complex characters. In this, it is reminiscent of established concerns with gender, race and identity within legal theory. However, Battlestar Galactica distorts the transmission of these; its equality is undercut by a violent emphasis on biology. This triumph of essentialism is short-lived. Battlestar Galactica’s projection of an essential biological nature is deceptive for what seems like essence is actually posited as technologically mediated.

—From the abstract to a scholarly legal article titled “Frakking Toasters” and Jurisprudences of Technology: THE EXCEPTION, THE SUBJECT AND TECHNE IN BATTLESTAR GALACTICA. Lexis-Nexis, you know all the right things to say.