The recent revival of BSG was one of my favourite sci-fi shows, mostly because it borrowed a lot from modern air war genres in its depiction of battle weary personnel and tired looking equipment, no doubt someone with an interest in naval aviation developed the sets it helped a lot 'modernizing' what were retro 70's interceptor model designs (essentially Star Wars inspired) used in the series.
Unlike Star Trek BSG was locked into a story loop that needed a conclusion to get out of, so the BSG franchise limited itself with its prospects, even so I would have liked a series spin-off examining how LA LALA LA final episode suggested.
Considering that some of today's Top Gun pilots that fly sophisticated war machines are women, gender swapping doesn't apply nowadays, using high tech equipment is gender neutral, my only gripe is that TV (and movie) writers must include a sexually ambiguous main character role somewhere at some point in the storyline. The French provide good examples of how to feature ambiguous sexual activity as a natural part of role playing in their movies and shows, sex is written with various degrees of intensity into each actors character development in such a way that the plot would look incomplete without it. The U.S. and sometimes UK productions more often than not tend to make a characters sexual preference look like a story twist, which in my opinion occasionally effects the continuity of the show.