Ship of State.

"It's interesting for me as a writer when we can move the chess pieces around a little bit, when you're dealing with suicide bombing on the show but suddenly it's not those other people who are doing it, but your characters. You're able to examine the moral questions of it in a different context because you're not burdened by the direct analogy of saying, 'If Laura is George Bush and the cylons are the enemy, how do you deal with it?'" Salon's Laura Miller has a sit-down with Ron Moore, creator of Battlestar Galactica.