Speaking of 9/11-ishness, I remember wondering how Lew Ayres let himself get get cast in his role in the first BG, considering his famous WW2 pacifism.
He was a pacifist in the original as well. "The Cylons want peace as well," were a few of his last words before he was blown out of the stars by the Cylons.
That and, "What? No. It can't be?!"