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Battlestar Galactica

 

 

Classic Series

Mini Series

The Second Coming 

 

   

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Battlestar Galactica - Classic Series

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Galactica - Season IV

Season III - Episode IV

 


Battlestar Galactica - Classic Series

The original series was shown on from 1978 through 1980.

Setting : 20th century years 1978-1979

3 seasons.

31 episodes.

Ship : Galactica (Battlestar of the Colonial Fleet)


Humanity lives in a distant star system on the twelve colonies. For a thousand years they have fought with the Cylons, war robots created by a reptilian race which expired a long time ago.

The cylons were never commanded to stop the war so they continued fighting against the human beings and the twelve colonies.

The Colonists were defeated in a sneak attack on the colonies while the Colonial Fleet was away, all this thanks to the help of the traitor Baltar.

A ragtag, fugitive fleet of ships escapes protected by the Battlestar Galactica commanded by Commander Adama. They flee in search of a new home, the 13th colony, a legendary planet called Earth.

The Classic Series was produced in a period when popular interest in science fiction was reborn, it was the most expensive television show produced at the time. Its special effects were a start of a new era. Unfortunately, the show was cancelled after the second season due to its high production costs.

There was a try to re-launch the series in 1980, a third season which only lasted six episodes was produced without Starbuck and Apollo and was widely criticised.

In this third, season where Galactica finally finds Earth, it is generally classed not to be a part of the Galactica Show. Actually the show was called off when the seventh episode was in production.

 

 

Battlestar Galactica - Mini Series

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Battlestar Galactica - Mini Series

The Mini series was shown in 2003

Setting : 20th century.

1 movie.

Ship : Galactica (Battlestar of the Colonial Fleet)


The war with the Cylons finished forty years ago, the Cylons are a race of cybernetic warriors created by man. The Cylons launch a devastating attack on the Twelve Colonies leading a fleet of survivors into deep space seeking the survival of their race protected by the Battlestar Galactica, a 50-year-old pride of the Colonial Fleet ship.

The Mini Series is a remake of the original film that started the Classic 1978 series.

In 2002 the Sci Fi Channel produced this 4 hour mini-series although most of the fans wanted a continuation of the original series.

 
 

Battlestar Galactica - The Second Coming

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Battlestar Galactica - The Second Coming

The modern series started in October 2004, 3rd season is now in production.

Setting : 22nd century years.

3 seasons produced - 4th in production

33 episodes up to date.

Ship : Galactica (Battlestar of the Colonial Fleet)


Cylons, intelligent robots created by the people of the Twelve Colonies to be used as slaves and soldiers to fight humanity's wars, but the Cylons rebelled, the man-machine war was extremely bloody until the Cylons withdrew to a remote region of space.

A truce between the Cylons and the Twelve Colonies lasted for 40 silently tense years. Every year on the anniversary of the treaty-signing an envoy was sent from the twelve colonies to the neutral ground of Armistice Station to meet the Cylon envoy. For 39 years no Cylon envoy came.

But on the 40th Anniversary, an incredible blonde - Cylon envoy in a human form - met the human envoy, only seconds before the Cylons destroyed the station and launched a massive attack on the Twelve Colonies.

It only took a day to kill billions of human lives with nuclear fires. Only a few thousand soles were able to escape in a delicate fleet and flee into deep space led by the only surviving Colonial Warship -  The Battlestar Galactica.

The Galactica is the only guardian for the 50,000 desperate survivors, this old ship which was going to be decommissioned and turned into a museum when the Cylons attacked the colonies. Captain Adama found himself responsible for the safeguard of the human fleet and the remains of the human race.

The annihilation of the Colonial government leaves the Secretary of Education, Laura Roslin as the new president of the colonies. Following prophetic visions she sets the fleet on a holy quest in search of the lost 13th Colony - Earth.