Battlestar Galactica at the United Nations

Battlestar Galactica was recently invited to the United Nations for a panel discussion on parallels between the motifs of their science fiction television show and real world issues we face today. It featured a guest of 100 New York high schoolers as well. The Chicago Tribune recounts the discussions that took place at the United Nations.

“We are all entitled to a social and international order in which all of the rights and freedoms of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights can be fully realized, regardless of race, sex, language or religion,” Mokhiber. Linking the quest for basic human rights to the “Battlestar” characters’ search for Earth, he said, “I would suggest that this is the mythical Earth for which we are all searching.”

It’s a bit creepy, but also very telling, how this seemingly dream mash-up of BSG and the U.N. makes perfect sense. A convergence of the awesomeness that is Battlestar and real life?

Please watch the two hour panel discussion here (realplayer required). Edward James Olmos even yells out ‘So say we all!’ to the audience. Bizarro.