Usually named after a Greek letter (space sectors), or a geographic formation on the surface of a planet (geographic sector, e.g. Galactica emerges from the anchorage and engages one basestar with its gun batteries, providing cover for a fleet of 75 civilian ships harboring survivors of the Twelve Colonies. The first of them were descendants of the lost thirteenth tribe called the "Final Five", who were not individually numbered and were not discovered until later in the series. Galactica's hangar deck in its original configuration during the Cylon War. Colonial Fleet Commanding Officer: Silas Nash (42 BCH) William Adama (0 BCH) Executive Officer: Saul Tigh Karl C. Agathon CAG: Armin Diaz Jackson Spencer Lee Adama George Birch Kara Thrace Louanne Katraine Karl C. Agathon Fate: Scuttled in ~4 ACH (YR04) Technical Specifications Class: Jupiter-class Type: Battleship Crew: ~2700 Length: In season 3, under the Cylon occupation of New Caprica, the humans decided to . [52] The game had three expansions, Pegasus, Exodus and Daybreak. Battle of Galactica opened June 9, 1979 as an event on the Studio Tour at Universal Studios Hollywood at a cost of $1 million, the most expensive special effects attraction ever built at the park at the time. It is a small bore semi-automatic pistol, with a bigger launcher attached under the barrel. At the time of its formal decommissioning ceremony, Galactica is stripped of all but one of its operational Viper Mark VII squadrons, its munitions are destroyed, and its starboard landing pod is converted into a pressurized museum which houses various items from the Cylon War while the launch facilities in the hangar deck below are permanently disabled. I think a series based on Exodus and Erik Von Danekan can be cut a little slack. After the destruction of the Twelve Colonies of Mankind, the last major fighter carrier leads a makeshift fugitive fleet on a desperate search for the legendary planet Earth.After the destruction of the Twelve Colonies of Mankind, the last major fighter carrier leads a makeshift fugitive fleet on a desperate search for the legendary planet Earth.After the destruction of the Twelve Colonies of Mankind, the last major fighter carrier leads a makeshift fugitive fleet on a desperate search for the legendary planet Earth. Starbuck and Boomer were now female characters, portrayed by Katee Sackhoff and Grace Park respectively. Visually, the basestar appeared as center-joined two flattened cones giving it a distinctive saucer-like appearance. She is also believed by some in the Fleet to be a religious figure essential to the fulfillment of the Pythian prophecy. As the battle wages on, Cylon Raiders swarm Galactica, destroying at least one of its remaining heavy gun batteries. With Edward James Olmos, Mary McDonnell, Jamie Bamber, James Callis. Throughout the series the Cylons become progressively more human. Glen A. Larson, the creator and executive producer of Battlestar Galactica, claimed he had conceived of the Battlestar Galactica premise, which he called Adam's Ark, during the late 1960s. All Battlestar Galactica productions share the premise that in a distant part of the universe, a human civilization has extended to a group of planets known as the Twelve Colonies, to which they have migrated from their ancestral homeworld of Kobol. Construction and First War Service (YR48-YR60), Modern Service and Decommissioning (YR80-YR00), Cylon Attack and Post-Fall Exodus (YR00-YR04), These dimensions (in meters) were derived from the CG model and posted by. Academy Award -nominated actor Edward James Olmos was cast in the role of Commander Adama, while two-time Academy Award nominee Mary McDonnell was cast as President Laura Roslin. As the midsection flexes, several Vipers are tossed from the port flight deck, and pieces of the outer hull shear off. [27] In October 2011 John Orloff was hired to write the script. Tor Science Fiction has published the following works in both hardcover and paperback format. 2003 - 2010. We also cover supplements, notably comics and novels, via our Separate Continuity policy. Structural reinforcing beams rip through ceilings and floors, causing insurmountable damage and blowing out electrical conduits. Electrical surges nearly blow out multiple displays in CIC, requiring a few moments for DRADIS to restore itself while extensive hull damage is apparent. Battlestar Galactica: The Face of the Enemy is a ten-part series of webisodes that was broadcast in the mid-season break of season 4 of Battlestar Galactica. Leland Joseph Adama, commonly known as Lee Adama or by his callsign, "Apollo", is a former Colonial Fleet Reserve officer who is appointed, Tyrol, often called "Chief", is the Galactica's highest-ranking non-commissioned officer and in charge of maintenance of the Vipers and Raptors. A continuation of the original series but set 25 years later, Singer and DeSanto's version included several members of the original cast reprising their original roles and the introduction of newer characters. Welcome to the Battlestar Galactica Wiki! However, the plan to hold off two basestars without their Raider cover while the colonists escape in their ships is complicated by the arrival of two additional basestars. in, This page was last edited on 12 April 2023, at 01:46. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. This "breaks the back" of the last battlestar, visibly apparent as the entire midsection violently oscillates against the bow and engineering sections. Galactica and the Fleet depart for the sun, with the African continent in the background. Instead of two additional TV movies, ABC decided to commission a weekly TV series of one-hour episodes. [53][54], In 2018, Ares Games released Battlestar Galactica: Starship Battles, a miniature game by Andrea Angiolino and Andrea Mainini simulating space duels between Vipers and Raiders, with expansions including further models. It is unknown if the ship took part in any major engagement prior to this point, however it is known that the Colonials were facing heavy losses in the wake of Cylon advancements (Blood and Chrome). It began with the original television series in 1978, and was followed by a short-run sequel series (Galactica 1980), a line of book adaptations, original novels, comic books, a board game, and video games. A cable car used to transport personnel through the ship. Galactica takes aboard a significant quantity of civilians following the exodus from New Caprica, as several civilian ships are lost during the escape from the failed colony. Roslin steals Hera. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. The show revolves around two families, the Adamas and the Graystones, and the creation of the Cylons. Sector Hekla on the planet Arcta"), Re-imagined Series definition:the process of using the FTL engines to make an near-instantaneous apparent faster-than-light transport of a ship from one point in space to another, Re-imagined Series definition:initial skills training; can refer to basic military indoctrination, and arms and ground training (TRS: "Fragged"); and basic flight training (TRS: "Miniseries"), Re-imagined Series definition:"Direction, Range, and Distance", Colonial equivalent of radar or lidar, Re-imagined Series definition:standard deployment of craft on defense posture, an anachronistic colloquialism used to refer to patrols in space. In the series, the Twelve Colonies built approximately 120 Battlestars during their thousand-year war with the Cylons, whose own battleships are known as Basestars . [32] On December 18, 2018, it was reported that Jay Basu (The Girl in the Spider's Web) had been hired to rewrite Joy's script. Gaius Baltar (James Callis) and Number Six serve their destiny by helping rescue Hera and deliver her to her parents. It is only after Adama confronts her that this ruse is discovered. Damage to this infrastructure results in electrical failures and power surges destroying multiple system components, including displays, in the CIC. Creator Ronald D. Moore Stars Alessandro Juliani Grace Park Jessica Harmon See production, box office & company info Add to Watchlist Added by 5.4K users 3 User reviews Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy 3 wins & 2 nominations total Episodes 10 Top-rated Mon, Jan 5, 2009 S1.E8 Episode #1.8 When the Fleet reaches the Ionian Nebula, four Cylon baseships are detected following an unexplained power outage. Galactica's heavy armor and radiation shielding protect it from the intense effects of the cluster, but the ship still suffers hull damage and numerous decompressions. The museum is about to open when the Cylons break the Armistice, and renew their hostilities with the Colonials. ", "Guide to the TV Tie-in Book Collection, 19451999", "Battlestar Galactica 'Space Alert' manual", "Battlestar Galactice Arcade Game Detail Page", "Bigpoint.com Play the best online browser games for free", "Battlestar Galactica Board Game BoardGameGeek", "Boardgamegeek.com - Battlestar Galactica: Starship Battles", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battlestar_Galactica&oldid=1149408351, Chris Klassen "Research Note: Rejecting Monotheism? For more information, please see our She is the serpent & the corrupter of the core characters. She is not the glorious leader of the Pythian texts, that character is Adama. Given the loss of Pegasus, Galactica now boasts a larger crew, Viper and Raptor complement, to the point where there are more pilots than there are ships to fly (TRS: "Torn"), although the training of new recruits is still ongoing (TRS: "DirtyHands", "Crossroads,PartII", "HeThatBelievethinMe"). This forces both a change in strategy and the reformulation of a rescue plan to deal with personnel who have not seen conflict in 16 months (TRS: "Precipice", "Exodus,PartI"). With Galactica's advanced age, the corners cut during construction, and the abuse it has been put through since the war started, in addition to no access to any repair facilities, have all contributed to deteriorating conditions. In this and later interactions with Baltar, Roslin shows almost the same attitude towards him as she does towards the Cylons, dismissing his humanity to fit her own twisted narrative. The episodic novels featured expanded scenes, excerpts from "The Adama Journals", more background on the characters, and the expansion of the ragtag fleet to almost 22,000 ships as opposed to the 220 in the TV series. Galactica also undertakes internal policing duties within the Fleet (TRS: "Water", "BastilleDay"). With the renewed and unexpected Cylon hostilities, Galactica is quickly brought back to combat condition and sorties a squadron of Mark IIs retrieved from its museum, engaging in its first battle with the Cylons in over forty years (all but one last Mark VII squadron were sent to Caprica for reassignment). [4] However, in 2013 the webisodes were included for the first time on the Japanese Season 4 Blu-ray box set.[5]. Battered by interstellar debris, Galactica is successful in escaping its position via a blind FTL jump to coordinates Thrace enters. Episode counts include the two part mini-series as well as the two television movies Razor and The Plan. A set of ten webisodes were released during the seven-month hiatus between episodes 10 and 11 of Season 4. Command will be transferred to the Cylon baseship once supplies and personnel have been offloaded (TRS: "IslandedInaStreamofStars"). Continuing where the 2003 mini-series left off, the main cast all returned to reprise their roles. [35][36][37] It would have featured Battlestar Pegasus. Prior to Galactica's FTL jump to Ragnar Anchorage, its drives were not utilized in nearly twenty years (TRS: "Miniseries,Night2"). It was intended to be telecast as a backdoor pilot in May 2002, and pre-production commenced and sets had even been partially constructed with a view to filming starting in November 2001. Command of the Fleet is transferred to Louis Hoshi, the flag is transferred to the baseship and a number of Vipers are assigned to it for CAP duties. In March 2009 the series won several Streamy Awards: Best Dramatic Web Series, Best Writing for a Dramatic Web Series, and Best Male Actor in a Dramatic Web Series for Alessandro Juliani. Severely limited in their abilities, Admiral Adama orders the defense fleet to jump away from New Caprica along with a handful of civilian ships still in orbit of the colony. Due to the outcome of the 2007-08 Writers Guild of America strike (which affected creator compensation for web-based content), the webisodes were not included in any North American or European DVD (Region 1) or Blu-ray releases, but were finally released as part of the Japanese Season 4 Blu-ray collection in 2013. -, https://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Galactica_(TRS)&oldid=241416. After the Colony is hit with nuclear-tipped missiles launched by Racetrack's drifting Raptor, both Galactica and the Colony begin falling into the black hole the Colony was orbiting. Everybody makes their choice; there are enough people to crew the ship. In "Water," the second episode of Season 1, a sleeper Cylon (Cylons are the robots that destroyed human civilization) who is secretly embedded on the central military battleship (Galactica) places explosives near the water tanks. The 10 webisodes, entitled "The Face of the Enemy," tell a story that takes place between seasons 4.0 and 4.5 of Battlestar and follow Lt. Gaeta when he is sent off in a Raptor with a handful of strangers and one of them mysteriously dies. Launching a squadron of Vipers and Raptors, who in turn launch drones to simulate the signatures of Pegasus and Galactica (leading the basestars guarding the planet to launch their Raider squadrons in pursuit), the real Galactica then executes an incredibly risky jump into New Caprica's upper atmosphere. In the subsequent battle, Galactica is bracketed by the four basestars and pummeled on all sides, losing maneuvering thrusters, and lacking the support of its Vipers leads to missile barrages disabling its FTL drives. An expanded version of the movie was released on DVD on December 4, 2007. At every major turning point Roslin is on the wrong side, often advocating for the most morally questionable, most destructive, and least compromising position. In season 1, Starbuck tortured Leoban because he said he knew the location of a nuclear warhead hidden in the fleet that will soon explode. The episodes are between 3 and 6 minutes in length, with two released per week. She rationalizes her actions by explaining people kill when necessary (the limited supply of oxygen prompted her to murder the other Raptor passengers; she viewed resistance members on New Caprica as enemy combatants. As James E. Ford detailed in "Battlestar Galactica and Mormon Theology", a paper read at the Joint Conference of the American Culture and Popular Culture Associations on April 17, 1980 (and published as "Theology in Prime Time Science Fiction: Battlestar Galactica and Mormon Doctrine", Journal of Popular Culture #17 [1983]: 8387), the series incorporated many themes from Mormon theology, such as marriage for "time and eternity", a "council of twelve", a lost thirteenth tribe of humans, and a planet called Kobol (an anagram of Kolob), as Larson was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The Face of the Enemy (2008-2009) Another web-series from the franchise. These battlestars were all designed with non-integrated computer systems to avoid the Cylons' demonstrated ability to override or subvert networked command and control systems early in the war (TRS: "Miniseries,Night1"). Legions of enemy Centurions swarm into the ship, and are held back by marine firing squads, despite inflicting heavy casualties. Further, there are various redundancies between the two crews that are appropriately dealt with (TRS: deleted scene from "Exodus, Part II"). All novels except Battlestar Galactica 14: Surrender the Galactica! The player tries to defend Galactica from kamikaze Cylon Raiders by manipulating a switch on the game unit to direct their fire, triggered by a red button to the left of the unit. Roslin sows mutiny aboard Galactica, setting the stage for Tigh's poor leadership to cause chaos in Season 2. Characters of the re-imagined version of Battlestar Galactica, with pilot callsigns in parenthesis. Preparations for the final mission get underway. William Adama, Re-imagined Series definition:Executive Officer, e.g. Laura Roslin is the primary antagonist of the entire series. The webseries was also aired as a 2-hour movie on Syfy on February 10, 2013,[18] and was released on DVD shortly afterwards. Each of the ten webisodes was approximately three minutes long, and they were released twice a week leading up to the U.S. The episodes were released in the break between A political radical and a terrorist, Zarek found himself stuck on a prison ship when the Colonies were destroyed. In the modern day naval nomenclature, the main battery is the primary offensive weapon on ships. Borellian Nomen - (survivors in the Colonial fleet: mentioned by Boomer to mostly keep to themselves). The game took place 40 years before the original series and featured an ensign Adama flying a Viper during the Cylon war. The psychological human-vs.-Cylon struggle is played out in the restrictive confines of a Raptor as everyone is a suspect, and par See production, box office & company info, : , Battlestar Galactica: Sometimes a Great Notion. During the following battle, Galactica manages to hold off the main attack of the massive Cylon attack force. She is the first humanoid Cylon that viewers witness in the re-imagined, Number Eight is a female humanoid Cylon model. (See List of Battlestar Galactica (1978 TV series) and Galactica 1980 episodes Theatrical releases). Besides, Star Wars was inspired by Flash Gordon, Kurosawa's The Hidden Fortress, The Dam Busters, King Arthur, and the works of Joseph Campbell. Roslin's reaction to discovering Baltar is one of vengeance, and shows a clear lack of foresight. They must reconcile their own destructive nature with their person-hood, a difficult task most of the models fail to achieve. Galactica's infirmary during the First Cylon War. Commissioned by the Sci-Fi Channel, screenwriter Ronald D. Moore and producer David Eick were the creative forces behind it. This is even after multiple instances where the Cylons display their person-hood, even if it is at the expense of a human. On Colonial warships, a battery is a group of guns or missile launchers operated together at one place. It premiered on Syfy (formerly Sci-Fi) on January 22, 2010, and was described as "television's first science fiction family saga". 150,000 years thereafter, existence of the ship and its Fleet are absent from Earth's history, except for the existence of a progenitor to the new human race[5] (TRS: "Daybreak,PartII"). Stranded without a functioning FTL (Faster than Light) drive, those on board face the grim realization that they may run out of oxygen before they are rescued. Battlestar Galactica TV Series The pilot was directed by Jeffrey Reiner and starred Eric Stoltz, Esai Morales, Paula Malcomson, Alessandra Torresani, and Polly Walker. On the green radar screen, they are always shown closing in on a wide front, regardless of the formation actually employed. They also released a 4-issue Galactica 1980 comic miniseries written by Marc Guggenheim. We are currently housing 1,726 articles and 2,153 files. However, Adama finally appreciates Galactica's dire condition when he finds a tear in a bulkhead in his quarters, and orders Tyrol to carry out his plan to repair the ship (TRS: "NoExit"). Made as an "optional extra" to Season 3, the webisodes filled in some of the events between the second and third seasons and featured some of the main cast, though did not reveal what would happen in the beginning of Season 3, nor was viewing them essential to follow the story of the third season.

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