<blockquote>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, "<strong>Oh, there the Colonials are three light minutes away, I can see where they are, but they won't see me for three minutes?</strong>" C.J. Cherryh's novels address this a bit with the idea of "<a href="http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/spacewardetect.php">longscan</a>," where you predict where they are going to be, but you might not know for some period of time what they actually did.</blockquote>
via <a href="http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/09/28/aircraft_carriers_in_space?page=full">Aircraft Carriers in Space - By Michael Peck | Foreign Policy</a>.