I believe it was Wells that said that, however regrettable, it was essential that the population of the Third World be exterminated, albeit in as humane a manner as possible. So perhaps the War of the Worlds was the same philosophy from the Martian viewpoint.

I have thought for some time that just as the Klingons were a Star Trek version of the Russians and the Romulans were a Star Trek version of the Chicoms, the Borg reflected the USA as viewed by the rest of the world. Think about it. Great big ships like no one else can build, essentially unstoppable, and they assimilate other cultures into their own like crazy.

Perhaps the best thing about the new Battlestar was that the produces obviously did not “give a frack” about political correctness. In fact, when asked why he had some of the characters commit the heinous crime of smoking cigarettes, one of the producers responded with exactly that comment.

One aspect of “V” that some people were uncomfortable with was the rather obvious fascist ideology of the invaders combined with the pogrom against scientists. Some people thought it made fun of what the Jewish people went through in WWII; I thought just the opposite.