It’s a space soap opera with some of the first sci-fi “girl-boss” characters. It was a magnet for Joss Whedon fans. It’s emotionally compelling but it’s got plot holes you can drive a truck through.
I like tv shows and movies that make little to no sense too but I don’t frantically pretend like they do. I’ve met a lot of diehard Battlestar fans that treat casual criticism about the show like it’s popular political blasphemy.
I still think it’s laughably ridiculous that the Secretary of Education became President. If the human race was an endangered species the military or a clandestine agency would be running everything.