It is integrated VERY well. Like "black market," it is absolutly concievable that a situation like that would happen. They also try not to abstensibley single out a certain group. In SG-1, I get the feeling and others do as well that they are trying to force they political issues as they see it. But BSG uses these politcal hot button issues as seriously drive the plot ala the abortion issue and Baltar's presidency. And not all this political issues are resolved in the neat prestine way that ST: Voyager was. Again the abortion issue, Roslynn had to make a very difficult decision. And the interesting thing about BSG is that it tries to ask those that might approve of abortion, but asks in this situation would you justify what you might consider to be an infraction of civil rights, be justified in this situation. Although I was kind of annoyed by the priest and her religious comments. I fealt as though they were trying to ascribe all pro-life advocates as religious cookes. But the primary reason that I think it is tolerable is the fact that the political structure of the 12 colonies is still intact on the show and Ron Moore has decided to show how these political issues really affect the story line instead of, like in the case of SG-1, just an easy way to extend the show for a few more seasons with out having to be really creative or in the case of Voyager solve them ever so neatly and not have it affect anything much or have some convienient solution. This is one of the reasons I liked DS9 so very much. Sometimes things were not so clean cut and easy. It is no suprise that Ron Moore wrote for that show, IIRC. An example of this might be when the Romulan Ambassador was assasinated and the Dominion framed or Section 31 for instance. I am sorry if this seems incoherent. It is very late and I had a long day at work.
