Amid the suffocating for of conformity that descended over America following 9/11, only one voice was able to reach the masses with honest commentary about the war on terror and the profound moral dilemmas involved in invasion, occupation, and resistance. This was the rebound TV science-fiction series, Battlestar Galactica. Who counts as human? Is killing an intelligent non-human murder or garbage disposal? Can we really know who we are until we know what we are? Battlestar Galactica confronts the reality of the twenty-first-century world system, where any one of us may discover, at any moment, that we are not what we thought we were, that our identity has been fragmented, corrupted, lost, stolen or deleted. Battlestar Galactica has been hailed by Time magazine and other critics as the smartest and most thought-provoking show on television. As well as thoughtful analysis of every aspect of the saga, Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy provides abundant background information and looks at every report from the Battlestar Galactica universe: all three TV series, the movie Razor, webisodes, novels, comics, video games and fanfic.