moments, and overall if you try not to think too hard you can enjoy it if you want to. Overall, you can tell the creative types behind it wanted it to be one thing, created plot contrivances and ignored holes to make it what they wanted it to be.Harry: Poor, dumb Harry.The perpetual ensign who was always reset back to Caretaker Harry at the beginning of each episode. He died, he got thrown into a parallel dimension, he mutated into an alien, he was eaten alive, he got an STD... but he always remained poor, dumb Harry.
No. Slightly cynical perhaps, but incredibly cynical? If she had been rescued from the Borg, put on trial for crimes she didn't commit, was imprisoned, used as a "canary" for hazardous away missions, was raped by the male (and lesbian) crewmembers, and at a critical moment in the final episode she killed herself so that the entire Voyager crew would die with her as her final revenge upon them... now that would have been incredibly cynical.
Okay then, I'll go with the Captain Kirk definition; everybody's human, even the Vulcans. 
That's because this pair of trousers has buttons rather than a zip and they're such a bugger to undo that I just leave them undone.
I believe that one of the main themes of Star Trek is the exploration of what it means to be "human" in the widest application of the word--which means that it includes aliens, like Vulcans. It is written, after all, for a human audience!
That's because this pair of trousers has buttons rather than a zip and they're such a bugger to undo that I just leave them undone.
Oz dealt with all those with major characters, most notably with the one that could probably be considered the main character (even though it was an ensable show) who had all of these happen to him (in chronological order: repeated rape, abuse and humiliation of self; suicide of a spouse; death/murder of a child) - and they changed him profoundly. In fact, this change that the character undergoes was the basis of his character throughout the series. And he was not the only one who had to deal with the death of a child, or rape of oneself - several other characters had to deal with one or the other. The show was one in which these issues - violence and how it affects and changs people - were at the core of the show; it explored them deeply, because that's what the show was about, and there were always consequences for the characters and their psychology and later behavior.
Ironically, that's exactly what BSG did. And of course, it was not good TV. (Granted, they only had a few more episodes till the end - but they shouldn't have done it in the first place, as it was pointless.)
They did it well... up until
That's just not true. There were plenty of moments when we saw the pilots together laughing, drinking toasting to each other, cracking jokes, or celebrating something (in "An Act of Contrition", they were cheerfully celebrating a pilot's 1000th landing, just before a bomb went off and killed many of them). In a deleted scene from "Scar" they were even auctioning a late pilot's belongings, including a porn magazine. In "Torn", everyone except Tigh and Starbuck behaves cheerfully and there is a lot of mirth and jokes when they're trying to come up with a callsign for Sharon, before Tigh destroys the moment because he is still tormented after his New Caprica experience, which is of course completely understandable. We always see Racestack and Skulls jokingly tease each other in the raptor.
I guess that it was one of the reasons why I never liked BSG. Not a smile, everyone acted as if they were on some funeral and everything was so serious.
On the contrary to series like Voyager and NCIS. The old Lynx need a twisted joke and a good laugh now and then.
