Mark A. Altman

“On the last season of Deep Space Nine, Ira Behr, through just sheer force of will and audacity, started a continuing storyline even though we weren’t supposed to do it. That’s when I suddenly realized that science fiction and television shows have this potential for storytelling that is much bigger in scope and much more exciting than movies, because you can tell a story the way Tolstoy or Dickens did—a sprawling epic with many zigs and zags and ups and downs for the characters. That’s when I began to fall in love with science fiction as a genre. In science fiction you can tell any kind of story. You can tell a metaphysical story, a moral drama, a personal/psychological drama, a political story, religious theme—we did all of those in Battlestar. No other genre really offers so many story opportunities or dimensions, and serialized storytelling became an important tool, though back then no one wanted to hear it. - David Weddle”
― Mark A. Altman, So Say We All: The Complete, Uncensored, Unauthorized Oral History of Battlestar Galactica