Battlestar Galactica: 10 WORST Things To Happen In The Colonial Fleet

10. Black Market

Although the episode in which it features is considered the worst of Galactica's four season run, this depiction of the black market in the fleet presents several interesting, and horrifying, truths about humanity and who they handle crises. While even Apollo recognises the need for a black market by the episode's end, it also depicts that even in times as desperate as these, the darker aspects of humanity remain.

The story is told through Apollo's point of view, revolving around his relationship with a prostitute named Shevon. She and her daughter Paya are subject to Phelan, a gangster who sees his procurement and supply of children as simply meeting the needs of those in the fleet.

While it is very much a bottle episode, the idea that child molestors - and those that supply them - remain in what is left of the human race is thoroughly depressing. While it would be naive to believe that only the good remain in the time after the apocalypse, to think that what little survival is left went to people who commit those crimes is bleak, to say the least.

It is so bleak, in fact, that the fact that Apollo murders in Phelan in cold blood is never mentioned in the series again.