A new Battlestar Galactica should be just as the two before it: about humans and their relationship to technology and also a product of its time. Much has changed since 2009 when Battlestar Galactica finished its run. The technology of 2022 is, in many ways, much more personal, with smartphones, Apple watches, fitness trackers, and even smart mattresses that monitor heart rate and sleep patterns. Runaway tech in any of these would be insidious and treacherous. The 2020s see social media, virtual home assistants, smart homes, self-driving cars, and on the cutting edge there are neuromorphic chips, cognitive computing, AI, and quantum teleportation. A new Battlestar Galactica would need to address these advents and how humans relate to them.

Just as its two precursors, a new Battlestar Galactica would draw from the time. The world has experienced a great deal of uncertainty in recent years. A global pandemic created a public health crisis and an economic crisis in many countries. People were left feeling they had little control over their lives. The ensuing vaccination battles further divided an already divided America. Between the chaotic exit from Afghanistan and Russia invading Ukraine there has been crisis and violence in much of the world. The US in particular has seen an increase in mass shootings and an erosion of personal rights. A new Battlestar Galactica would likely explore these areas and, if the rebooted series is any indication, force us to examine things in a different light.