Ingredients:
17 stories which use cowardice as the prime component (Again and again the primary thread in Battlestar Galactica was "They're right behind us! Run, run!" Never a counteroffensive, never a strategic raid, or a grand offensive against an unprotected enemy planet).
Reuse lots of special effects, and assume the viewers will never notice.
Mix in heavy-handed morality tales.
Six quarts of Biblical & religious references.
Sift in cast of unknowns.
One big name from a Western series to attract the wrong kind of audience.
Mix at high speed with overtones of despair, and desperation, but do not allow hope to develop [this is important!].
Ten gallons of cost overruns for expensive flavor.
DO NOT USE REAL SCIENCE IN STORIES (viewers are stupid, they'll never know the difference).
Garnish with lots of hype.
Serve cold.
17 stories which use cowardice as the prime component (Again and again the primary thread in Battlestar Galactica was "They're right behind us! Run, run!" Never a counteroffensive, never a strategic raid, or a grand offensive against an unprotected enemy planet).
Reuse lots of special effects, and assume the viewers will never notice.
Mix in heavy-handed morality tales.
Six quarts of Biblical & religious references.
Sift in cast of unknowns.
One big name from a Western series to attract the wrong kind of audience.
Mix at high speed with overtones of despair, and desperation, but do not allow hope to develop [this is important!].
Ten gallons of cost overruns for expensive flavor.
DO NOT USE REAL SCIENCE IN STORIES (viewers are stupid, they'll never know the difference).
Garnish with lots of hype.
Serve cold.