50% of a deal is better than 100% of no deal, so I'll bank that one. In any case, the internal characters were a fluke of the creative process and the edge they added seems more important. It's something you can fudge without explanations and Ron seems happy enough with leaving it unexplained. I can run with that.

Just had another thought. In Blake's 7 there was a small computer called Orac. Orac's systems were multi-dimensional, and used the same dimension telepaths used to communicate. Again, this is all speculative fiction but could be massaged into an explanation for this and Roslin's shared dream experience.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orac_(Blake's_7)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAMPy_AhEns