Battlestar Galactica has other issues. One thing I have never understood is why the humans didn’t lose halfway through the first episode. If information moves at the speed of light, and one side has a tactically useful FTL [faster-than-light] drive to make very small jumps, then there is no reason why the Cylons couldn’t jump close enough and go, “Oh, there the Colonials are three light minutes away, I can see where they are, but they won’t see me for three minutes?” C.J. Cherryh’s novels address this a bit with the idea of “longscan,” where you predict where they are going to be, but you might not know for some period of time what they actually did.
via Aircraft Carriers in Space – By Michael Peck | Foreign Policy.