“Battlestar Galactica,” Black Market
With this episode, the show went from exploring humanity in a struggle to survive extinction as a species to a bad episode of “Law and Order.” The show struggled to maintain its high stakes since, in a 22-episode season, the fate of humanity can only be jeopardized so many times before it starts to feel repetitive. To combat this problem, the show occasionally took breaks to focus on smaller issues, like the problems people might face if stuck on a starship with no home planet. Unfortunately, to do that, they had to introduce issues out of nowhere, like in this episode, where a thriving black market for supplies is not only operating unchecked, but at a massive scale, even though it had never been so much as hinted at previously. The episode features cartoonish gangsters and a hooker with a heart of gold… enough said.