Gracious! I thought this was an article from the onion. Weren't Cylon's machines?!!! I always thought Battlestar Galactica was cheesy and silly. Lorne Green was trying to out do William Shatner's over-acting to the nth degree. Of course, Shatner can get away with that because his whole actor personna was based on emoting. Not so with the Ponderosa guy. ;)
The fact that some network is bringing back the Galactica series (that supposedly once touted a conservative Mormon influence) and will try to make it a lefty-spouting vehicle is cheesy and silly to the nth degree.
About the only thing that you could say about the original B.G. was that it was seventies schlock (Love Boat in outer space), and the only person in it who wasn't a mis-cast was Dirk Benedict.