https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tv/articles/edward-james-olmos-turned-battle-120055280.html

When Ronald D. Moore and David Eick set out to reinvent Battlestar Galactica, they weren’t interested in simply updating Glen A. Larson’s 1978 space opera with better visual effects. They wanted something rawer, grittier and more emotionally honest—a science-fiction series that felt uncomfortably close to the world audiences were living in.