I'm glad you brought up the other shows that seem to fail. Every Sci-Fi series that has come after BSG still fails miserably. They have the blueprint right in front of them, something tells them "this is how you do it" if you want to be successful and yet, they still can't get anything right. Go figure. If I ever do get around to writing a true Sci-Fi story for myself, I will absolutely use BSG as my blueprint. Hell, it should be the blueprint for any type of drama because if you look at BSG as a whole, it actually transcends the genre and that's why the series resonated with me from the very first episode of the Mini-Series.