Battlestar Galactica is a franchise of American science fiction films and television series, the first of which was produced in 1978. A series of book adaptations, original novels, comic books and video games have also been based on the concept.
All of the Battlestar Galactica productions share the same premise: In a distant part of the universe, a civilization of humans live on planets known as the Twelve Colonies. In the past, the Colonies have been at war with a cybernetic race known as the Cylons. With the help of a human named Baltar, the Cylons launch a sudden sneak attack on the Colonies, laying waste to the planets and devastating their populations. A few thousand of the human survivors flee into space aboard any spacecraft they can reach. Of all the Colonial Fleet, the Battlestar Galactica appears to be the only military ship that survived the attack. Under the leadership of famed military leader Commander Adama, the Battlestar Galactica and her crew take up the task of leading the ragtag fleet of survivors into space in search of a fabled refuge known as Earth.
Original series (1978 & 1980)
Battlestar Galactica (1978)
Glen A. Larson, the Executive Producer of Battlestar Galactica, has stated in many interviews that he originally conceived of the Galactica premise in the late 1960s, which he originally called Adam's Ark. However, he was unable to get the project greenlit for many years.
Battlestar Galactica was finally produced in the wake of the success of the 1977 film Star Wars. In fact, 20th Century Fox sued Universal Studios (the studio behind Battlestar Galactica) for copyright infringement, claiming that it had stolen 34 distinct ideas from Star Wars. Universal promptly countersued, claiming Star Wars had stolen ideas from the 1972 film Silent Running (notably the robot "drones") and the Buck Rogers serials of the 1940s. The lawsuit was eventually dismissed in 1980.
Initially, Larson envisioned Battlestar Galactica as a series of made-for-TV movies (a three-hour pilot and two two-hour episodes) for the ABC television network. A shortened version of the three-hour pilot, Saga of a Star World, was released in Canadian theaters (before the series aired) and American theaters (after the series aired), and instead of two additional movies, a weekly television series followed.
In 1979 at the 6th Annual People's Choice Awards, the series won for Best New TV Drama Series.
During the eight months after pilot was broadcast, 17 original episodes of the series were aired (five of them two-parters), totaling 24 hours of broadcasting. Citing declining ratings and cost overruns, ABC cancelled Battlestar Galactica in April, its last episode "The Hand of God" premiering on April 29, 1979.
Galactica 1980
During the autumn of 1979, ABC executives met with Galactica's creator Glen A. Larson to consider a relaunch of the series. A suitable concept would be needed to draw viewers, and it was decided that the arrival of the Colonial Fleet at contemporary Earth would be the storyline. A new television movie entitled Galactica 1980 was rushed into production. Again, it was decided this new version of Galactica would be made into a weekly series. Despite the early success of the premiere, the show failed to achieve the popularity of the original series and was cancelled after only ten episodes.
In this 1980 sequel series, the fleet finds Earth and covertly protects it from the Cylons. This series was a quick failure due to its low budget (e.g., recycling footage from the 1974 Universal Studios film Earthquake, during a Cylon attack sequence), widely-panned writing, and ill-placed time slot (Sundays at 7:00 PM, a time slot generally reserved for family-oriented programming and, more specifically, 60 Minutes). [citation needed] The show was also obligated to adhere to strict content restrictions such as limiting acts of violence and being required to shoe horn educational content into the script and dialogue. To cut costs, the show was set mostly on contemporary Earth, to the great dismay of fans. Some syndication packages for Battlestar Galactica incorporate the episodes of this series.
Cinema releases
Besides a re-edited version of the pilot, released originally in Canada, Europe and parts of Latin America and, following the broadcast of the series, in the U.S., two other Battlestar Galactica feature films were released in cinemas. Both Mission Galactica: The Cylon Attack & Conquest of the Earth were made up of various episodes of the original series and Galactica 1980 respectively. (See: List of Battlestar Galactica features films)
Attempted Revivals
The original series maintained a cult fandom, which has supported efforts by Glen A. Larson, Richard Hatch and Bryan Singer (independent of each other) to revive the premise. Hatch even went so far as to produce a demonstration video in 1998–1999 which featured several actors from the original series combined with state-of-the-art special effects. This video, titled Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming, was displayed at science fiction conventions but did not lead to a new series.
In 1999, Wing Commander producer Todd Moyer and original series producer Glen A. Larson revealed plans to produce a motion picture based on the television series.
In 2000, the director and an executive producer of the X-Men film, Bryan Singer and Tom DeSanto, began developing a Galactica television miniseries with Studios USA for FOX. Intended to air as a backdoor pilot in May 2002, filming was scheduled to begin in November 2001. However production delays caused by the September 11, 2001 attacks meant Bryan Singer had to drop out due to his directing commitments on X-Men 2. This led Fox to lose interest and redirect their attention to Joss Whedon's Firefly television series.
2003 re-imagining
Despite attempts to revive the series over the years, none came to fruition until it was reimagined in 2003 by Universal Television in association with Sky One and the Sci Fi Channel with Ronald D. Moore as the creative force behind it. Edward James Olmos stepped into the role of Commander Adama. A weekly new Galactica series followed, premiering on Sky One in the UK in October 2004, and on Sci-Fi in the U.S. in January 2005.
Miniseries
In December 2003, the American Sci Fi channel broadcast a three-hour miniseries that reimagined Battlestar Galactica. This miniseries was so successful that Sci-Fi opted to develop this new version of Galactica into a television series.
Television series
Featuring critically acclaimed veteran actors such as Edward James Olmos as Commander William Adama and Mary McDonnell as President Laura Roslin, the new series began in October 2004. Many fans of the original series were disappointed in how different in tone, style, and content the reimagined version was from its original source material. On Internet message boards, many came to refer to the show as GINO, an acronym for Galactica In Name Only. In the second season episode "Pegasus," Ronald D. Moore named one of the Cylon characters Gina as a reference to the show's nickname.
The series was aired first in the UK and Ireland on Sky One, and then later in North America in January 2005. Ronald D. Moore agreed to give Sky the first showing because Sky provided the financing to shoot the first season. Unlike NBC, Sky had faith in the success of the show, mainly due to the mini-series having been a hit in the UK and Ireland. However, due to massive downloading from BitTorrent sites by North American broadband users, any further seasons will air in North America first. [citation needed]
A heavily edited [citation needed] version of the miniseries was broadcast on NBC—a corporate sibling of the U.S. Sci Fi Channel—on January 9, 2005, five days before the American debut. NBC additionally aired three selected first season episodes as a sampler, to entice new American viewers in advance of the second season premiere in July 2005. Unfortunately, the NBC-TV network showings were not as high in ratings as the producers had hoped for. The second season episode that was shown in July, 2005 was rank #115 in Neilsen Ratings out of 115 shows that week.
The series won widespread acclaim among many mainstream non sci-fi publications. Time magazine, Rolling Stone magazine and New York Newsday named it the best show on television in 2005. Other publications like The New York Times, The New Yorker and National Review also gave the show glowing reviews.
In January 2006, the second half of the second season began broadcasting in the United States, while the full season premiere ("Scattered") aired on Sky One in the UK on 10 January 2006. The second season ended on 10 March 2006 with the two-part season finale episode "Lay Down Your Burdens".
In the spring of 2006, the show was awarded a Peabody Award for its creative accomplishments.
The show was renewed for a third season, and production began in April, 2006 in Vancouver. The season premiered on October 6, 2006 and then went on mid season hiatus on December 15, 2006. The show then returned on a new day and time in 2007. Sci Fi Channel has changed the show's time slot to Sundays at 10:00pm EST/PST starting on the show's mid season premier in 21 January 2007.
The third season ended on 25 March, 2007 with "Crossroads, Part 2". The Sci-Fi channel announced officially on February 13, 2007 that the series would be renewed for a fourth season. The fourth season is slated to include 22 episodes, with an expected premiere in January 2008. The fourth season will be the final season for the series.Battlestar Galactica: Razor, was announced to be released in November of 2007, serving as a special two hour episode event regarding the history of the Battlestar Pegasus and its crew prior to rendezvous with the Battlestar Galactica.
EPISODES (2004-????)
Glen A. Larson, the Executive Producer of Battlestar Galactica, has stated in many interviews that he originally conceived of the Galactica premise in the late 1960s, which he originally called Adam's Ark. However, he was unable to get the project greenlit for many years.
Battlestar Galactica was finally produced in the wake of the success of the 1977 film Star Wars. In fact, 20th Century Fox sued Universal Studios (the studio behind Battlestar Galactica) for copyright infringement, claiming that it had stolen 34 distinct ideas from Star Wars. Universal promptly countersued, claiming Star Wars had stolen ideas from the 1972 film Silent Running (notably the robot "drones") and the Buck Rogers serials of the 1940s. The lawsuit was eventually dismissed in 1980.
Initially, Larson envisioned Battlestar Galactica as a series of made-for-TV movies (a three-hour pilot and two two-hour episodes) for the ABC television network. A shortened version of the three-hour pilot, Saga of a Star World, was released in Canadian theaters (before the series aired) and American theaters (after the series aired), and instead of two additional movies, a weekly television series followed.
In 1979 at the 6th Annual People's Choice Awards, the series won for Best New TV Drama Series.
During the eight months after pilot was broadcast, 17 original episodes of the series were aired (five of them two-parters), totaling 24 hours of broadcasting. Citing declining ratings and cost overruns, ABC cancelled Battlestar Galactica in April, its last episode "The Hand of God" premiering on April 29, 1979.
Galactica 1980
During the autumn of 1979, ABC executives met with Galactica's creator Glen A. Larson to consider a relaunch of the series. A suitable concept would be needed to draw viewers, and it was decided that the arrival of the Colonial Fleet at contemporary Earth would be the storyline. A new television movie entitled Galactica 1980 was rushed into production. Again, it was decided this new version of Galactica would be made into a weekly series. Despite the early success of the premiere, the show failed to achieve the popularity of the original series and was cancelled after only ten episodes.
In this 1980 sequel series, the fleet finds Earth and covertly protects it from the Cylons. This series was a quick failure due to its low budget (e.g., recycling footage from the 1974 Universal Studios film Earthquake, during a Cylon attack sequence), widely-panned writing, and ill-placed time slot (Sundays at 7:00 PM, a time slot generally reserved for family-oriented programming and, more specifically, 60 Minutes). [citation needed] The show was also obligated to adhere to strict content restrictions such as limiting acts of violence and being required to shoe horn educational content into the script and dialogue. To cut costs, the show was set mostly on contemporary Earth, to the great dismay of fans. Some syndication packages for Battlestar Galactica incorporate the episodes of this series.
Cinema releases
Besides a re-edited version of the pilot, released originally in Canada, Europe and parts of Latin America and, following the broadcast of the series, in the U.S., two other Battlestar Galactica feature films were released in cinemas. Both Mission Galactica: The Cylon Attack & Conquest of the Earth were made up of various episodes of the original series and Galactica 1980 respectively. (See: List of Battlestar Galactica features films)
Attempted Revivals
The original series maintained a cult fandom, which has supported efforts by Glen A. Larson, Richard Hatch and Bryan Singer (independent of each other) to revive the premise. Hatch even went so far as to produce a demonstration video in 1998–1999 which featured several actors from the original series combined with state-of-the-art special effects. This video, titled Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming, was displayed at science fiction conventions but did not lead to a new series.
In 1999, Wing Commander producer Todd Moyer and original series producer Glen A. Larson revealed plans to produce a motion picture based on the television series.
In 2000, the director and an executive producer of the X-Men film, Bryan Singer and Tom DeSanto, began developing a Galactica television miniseries with Studios USA for FOX. Intended to air as a backdoor pilot in May 2002, filming was scheduled to begin in November 2001. However production delays caused by the September 11, 2001 attacks meant Bryan Singer had to drop out due to his directing commitments on X-Men 2. This led Fox to lose interest and redirect their attention to Joss Whedon's Firefly television series.
2003 re-imagining
Despite attempts to revive the series over the years, none came to fruition until it was reimagined in 2003 by Universal Television in association with Sky One and the Sci Fi Channel with Ronald D. Moore as the creative force behind it. Edward James Olmos stepped into the role of Commander Adama. A weekly new Galactica series followed, premiering on Sky One in the UK in October 2004, and on Sci-Fi in the U.S. in January 2005.
Miniseries
In December 2003, the American Sci Fi channel broadcast a three-hour miniseries that reimagined Battlestar Galactica. This miniseries was so successful that Sci-Fi opted to develop this new version of Galactica into a television series.
Television series
Featuring critically acclaimed veteran actors such as Edward James Olmos as Commander William Adama and Mary McDonnell as President Laura Roslin, the new series began in October 2004. Many fans of the original series were disappointed in how different in tone, style, and content the reimagined version was from its original source material. On Internet message boards, many came to refer to the show as GINO, an acronym for Galactica In Name Only. In the second season episode "Pegasus," Ronald D. Moore named one of the Cylon characters Gina as a reference to the show's nickname.
The series was aired first in the UK and Ireland on Sky One, and then later in North America in January 2005. Ronald D. Moore agreed to give Sky the first showing because Sky provided the financing to shoot the first season. Unlike NBC, Sky had faith in the success of the show, mainly due to the mini-series having been a hit in the UK and Ireland. However, due to massive downloading from BitTorrent sites by North American broadband users, any further seasons will air in North America first. [citation needed]
A heavily edited [citation needed] version of the miniseries was broadcast on NBC—a corporate sibling of the U.S. Sci Fi Channel—on January 9, 2005, five days before the American debut. NBC additionally aired three selected first season episodes as a sampler, to entice new American viewers in advance of the second season premiere in July 2005. Unfortunately, the NBC-TV network showings were not as high in ratings as the producers had hoped for. The second season episode that was shown in July, 2005 was rank #115 in Neilsen Ratings out of 115 shows that week.
The series won widespread acclaim among many mainstream non sci-fi publications. Time magazine, Rolling Stone magazine and New York Newsday named it the best show on television in 2005. Other publications like The New York Times, The New Yorker and National Review also gave the show glowing reviews.
In January 2006, the second half of the second season began broadcasting in the United States, while the full season premiere ("Scattered") aired on Sky One in the UK on 10 January 2006. The second season ended on 10 March 2006 with the two-part season finale episode "Lay Down Your Burdens".
In the spring of 2006, the show was awarded a Peabody Award for its creative accomplishments.
The show was renewed for a third season, and production began in April, 2006 in Vancouver. The season premiered on October 6, 2006 and then went on mid season hiatus on December 15, 2006. The show then returned on a new day and time in 2007. Sci Fi Channel has changed the show's time slot to Sundays at 10:00pm EST/PST starting on the show's mid season premier in 21 January 2007.
The third season ended on 25 March, 2007 with "Crossroads, Part 2". The Sci-Fi channel announced officially on February 13, 2007 that the series would be renewed for a fourth season. The fourth season is slated to include 22 episodes, with an expected premiere in January 2008. The fourth season will be the final season for the series.Battlestar Galactica: Razor, was announced to be released in November of 2007, serving as a special two hour episode event regarding the history of the Battlestar Pegasus and its crew prior to rendezvous with the Battlestar Galactica.
EPISODES (2004-????)
Season 1
Season 1, Episode 1: 33
Original Air Date: 18 October 2004
Following the destruction of the Colonies, the refugee fleet led by Galactica has been relentlessly chased by the Cylons who pop up every 33 minutes to attack again, and have been doing so for five days straight. 33 minutes gives them barely long enough to calculate a jump and distribute the coordinates to each ship. The perpetual attacks and jumps to escape prevent anyone from sleeping for very long, even if they aren't involved in keeping the fleet moving. The equipment is also stressed to the point that, finally, a passenger ship called the 'Olympic Carrier' is left behind, rebooting their jump computer when the jump is executed. When the Olympic Carrier suddenly jumps in to rejoin the fleet some time later, it seems certain that the ship must have been infiltrated.
Season 1, Episode 2: Water
Original Air Date: 25 October 2004
President Roslin arrives on Galactica as Boomer's Cylon side asserts itself, forcing her to sabotage Galactica's water supply against her will. A series of explosions leads to the loss of 60% of the water reserves and Commander Adama is compelled to introduce rationing and begin a search of nearby planetary systems for any H20 deposits.
Season 1, Episode 3: Bastille Day
Original Air Date: 1 November 2004
Deciding to use the thousand prisoners on a prison transport ship to mine the ice on the planet they've found, Galactica's plans are upset when a political prisoner onboard leads an uprising, taking hostages. He questions the legitimacy of Roslin's government and demands free elections to be held in the fleet.
Season 1, Episode 4: Act of Contrition
Original Air Date: 8 November 2004
There's a party on Galactica's flight deck as Flat-Top just had his thousandth landing. Something goes terribly wrong however when a drone accidentally goes off and explodes in a group of pilots. 13 are dead. During the ceremony Kara Thrace starts thinking about her dead fiancée Zak Adama. And those memories even get clearer when Adama orders her to start training new pilots. She seems very uncomfortable in doing so. The favor she did for Zak by letting him pass basic flight seems to bother her more and more. Angrily she stops training pilots after just one day. Meanwhile on Cylon-occupied Caprica Helo and Cylon-Sharon find a bomb shelter in a restaurant. It seems like a good place to stay for a while. There's food, water and anti-radiation medication in abundance.
Season 1, Episode 5: You Can't Go Home Again
Original Air Date: 15 November 2004
Starbuck has been shot down over a barren moon, and must be rescued before she runs out of oxygen. Adama become obsessed with trying to save her even when all hope seems lost, putting the Fleet at risk. Meanwhile, Starbuck finds the Cylon Raider she shot down, and tries to learn how to fly it so she can escape.
Season 1, Episode 6: Litmus
Original Air Date: 22 November 2004
A humanoid Cylon straps himself with explosives and commits a suicide bombing in a crowded hallway on Galactica. Roslin and Adama are forced to publicly reveal that the Cylons now have models that look like humans, and a wave of paranoia spreads over the fleet as everyone starts being suspected of being a Cylon.
Season 1, Episode 7: Six Degrees of Separation
Original Air Date: 29 November 2004
After Baltar has an argument with the vision of Number Six he sees in his head, a physical copy of Cylon model Number Six shows up in Galactica's CIC claiming to be a woman named Shelley Godfrey who has evidence that proves that Baltar has betrayed humanity...except that she's trying to frame him for an act of pre-attack sabotage.
Season 1, Episode 8: Flesh and Bone
Original Air Date: 6 December 2004
A humanoid Cylon is captured in the fleet, a copy of the Leoben model, who claims that he has planted a nuclear bomb in the Fleet before he was captured. Starbuck is tasked with interrogating him, which soon becomes a battle of wills as Starbuck has her marines to torture the Cylon to try to break him.
Season 1, Episode 9: Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down
Original Air Date: 13 December 2004
After the interrogated Cylon gave Roslin the idea that Adama might be a Cylon, Roslin becomes suspicious of him. Unexpectedly, Colonel Tigh's estranged wife Ellen turns up alive in the fleet, apparently miraculously, raising the possibility that she might be a Cylon.
Season 1, Episode 10: The Hand of God
Original Air Date: 3 January 2005
The fleet is running out of tylium fuel and will soon not have enough to keep running from the Cylons, when they find an asteroid with several years worth of tylium ore...unfortunately, the Cylons have already built a mining base on it.
Season 1, Episode 11: Colonial Day
Original Air Date: 10 January 2005
President Roslin has rebuilt a new Quorum of Twelve, the legislative branch of the government, but terrorist leader/political dissident Tom Zarek is elected as a member, and immediately motions that the Quorum vote to appoint a new Vice President, and runs for the office.
Season 1, Episode 12: Kobol's Last Gleaming: Part 1
Original Air Date: 17 January 2005
Galactica stumbles upon Kobol, the long-lost home world of humanity that the 13 Tribes came from, which legend says holds the only clues to the location of Earth. Roslin convinces Starbuck to steal the captured Cylon raider and return to Cylon-occupied Caprica with it to retrieve a religious artifact that will unlock the secrets on Kobol.
Season 1, Episode 13: Kobol's Last Gleaming: Part 2
Original Air Date: 24 January 2005
Infuriated that Roslin usurped his command by ordering Starbuck to steal the captured Raider, Adama decides that his only option is to storm Colonial One with marines and terminate her presidency. Starbuck reaches Caprica and finds the Arrow of Apollo in a museum, but she has to go through a copy of Number Six to get it.
Season 2
Season 2, Episode 1: Scattered
Original Air Date: 15 July 2005
As the premiere for the second season unfolds, Adama lay dying leaving Tigh in command. Lee and Roslin have been sent to the brig. An emergency jump goes wrong leaving the Galactica alone in space without the fleet.
Season 2, Episode 2: Valley of Darkness
Original Air Date: 22 July 2005
A Cylon virus is hampering with Galactica's power supply, while Cylon centurions are heading for crucial systems. Somehow they must be stopped.
Season 2, Episode 3: Fragged
Original Air Date: 29 July 2005
Tigh has problems with the responsibility of being a leader, president Roslin loses control without chamalla. The Kobol team discovers a Cylon battery.
Season 2, Episode 4: Resistance
Original Air Date: 5 August 2005
Tigh's decision to impose martial law is protested in the fleet as well as on Galactica. On Caprica, Helo and Starbuck meet other humans.
Season 2, Episode 5: The Farm
Original Air Date: 12 August 2005
Starbuck finds herself wounded in a hospital on Caprica where she is suspicious about her doctor. President Roslin makes an appeal to the fleet to follow her to Kobol.
Season 2, Episode 6: Home: Part 1
Original Air Date: 19 August 2005
Starbuck, Helo and Boomer bring back the Arrow of Apollo, but Boomer doesn't seem welcome. Commander Adama wants to keep the fleet divided and appoints a new CAG.
Season 2, Episode 7: Home: Part 2
Original Air Date: 26 August 2005
While commander Adama tries to join Roslin's team on Kobol, Dr. Baltar's Number Six tells him he's crazy.
Season 2, Episode 8: Final Cut
Original Air Date: 9 September 2005
Journalist D'Anna Biers is making an item on the Gideon incident, when she's asked by Adama and Roslin to film daily life on Galactica.
Season 2, Episode 9: Flight of the Phoenix
Original Air Date: 16 September 2005
While Tyrol decides to start building a new fighter, the Cylon virus is rearing it's ugly head again. Boomer tells it means a large Cylon attack is imminent.
Season 2, Episode 10: Pegasus
Original Air Date: 23 September 2005
Gallactica meets Pegasus, and Adama's command is threatened when the captain of Pegasus outranks him. A joyous celebration turns sour at some of the secrets emerging out of the differences of the two crews, and Baltar meets a familiar Cylon prisoner aboard Pegasus.
Season 2, Episode 11: Resurrection Ship: Part 1
Original Air Date: 6 January 2006
Adama and Cain find common ground when Starbuck returns with footage of the Cylon ship. Roslin negotiates a temporary truce, while Starbuck plans an attack.
Season 2, Episode 12: Resurrection Ship: Part 2
Original Air Date: 13 January 2006
Starbuck and Fisk are preparing for the murder jobs, while the attack on the Resurrection ship is planned. It goes wrong for Apollo. Dr. Baltar has feelings for Pegasus' Number Six.
Season 2, Episode 13: Epiphanies
Original Air Date: 20 January 2006
President Roslin, who is about to die, believes Sharon's baby is dangerous and orders it must die. Meanwhile, a terrorist group inside the fleet starts to ask for a peace negotiation with the cylons.
Season 2, Episode 14: Black Market
Original Air Date: 27 January 2006
Apollo investigates the murder of one of the crew and falls for a young prostitute, whom he vows to save from the rogue ship dealing with the Black Market. As well as confronting the bad guys, Apollo has to confront some past mistakes.
Season 2, Episode 15: Scar
Original Air Date: 3 February 2006
This is an episode about loss. Kat and Starbuck confront each other about their piloting skills and each vow to kill Scar (a Cylon spaceship) before the other.
Season 2, Episode 16: Sacrifice
Original Air Date: 10 February 2006
A terrorist attacks and holds several key people hostage and threatens to murder them unless she is given the Cylon prisoner.
Season 2, Episode 17: The Captain's Hand
Original Air Date: 17 February 2006
Two of Pegasus' raptors go missing after a suspicious distress call. President Roslin must make a decision on abortion that could hurt her political career.
Season 2, Episode 18: Downloaded
Original Air Date: 24 February 2006
The Cylon baby is finally born, leading to some political decisions being made. Meanwhile, the Cylons on Caprica contemplate life and humans when they meet up with a certain human from a previous episode. This story explores the Cylon world.
Season 2, Episode 19: Lay Down Your Burdens: Part 1
Original Air Date: 3 March 2006
While Dr. Baltar is behind in the polls for the election and tries desperately to turn things around, Starbuck is planning a mission to rescue Anders from Caprica.
Season 2, Episode 20: Lay Down Your Burdens: Part 2
Original Air Date: 10 March 2006
The group on Caprica is under fire by the Cylons, but suddenly they stop. With only one ship's votes to be counted, Roslin is way behind in the elections.
Season 3
Season 3, Episode 1: Occupation
Original Air Date: 6 October 2006
Tigh, Tyrol and Anders lead the Resistance on New Caprica to increasingly deadly attacks against the Cylons. Kara finds herself trapped in a new life with Leoben Conoy, and Duck makes a fateful decision. Meanwhile on Galactica, Adama struggles with the question of whether to return to New Caprica to mount a rescue attempt.
Season 3, Episode 2: Precipice
Original Air Date: 6 October 2006
Adama plans to return to New Caprica and drop off a surprising person to act as a liaison between Galactica and the Resistance. Tigh's insistence on the use of suicide bombers and ever escalating violence stuns even the fellow leaders of the Resistance. Eventually, the suicide bombings cause the Cylon occupiers to crackdown on their human subjects.
Season 3, Episode 3: Exodus: Part 1
Original Air Date: 13 October 2006
Sharon helps to organize the Resistance as Adama heads to New Caprica aboard Galactica for a daring rescue operation. Lee disagrees with Adama's plan to return to New Caprica, arguing that they need to focus on the survival of humanity. He sees the rescue mission as a one-way trip.
Season 3, Episode 4: Exodus: Part 2
Original Air Date: 20 October 2006
Tigh must decide the fate of his wife Ellen after the assistance she rendered to the Cylons. Lee struggles with his assignment to protect the civilian fleet on its journey toward Earth while Adama returns to New Caprica with just the Galactica. The Resistance coordinates an attack on the Cylons just as Galactica arrives. As the Cylons begin to lose control, Number Three (D'Anna Biers) vows to put a final end to the New Caprican experiment.
Season 3, Episode 5: Collaborators
Original Air Date: 27 October 2006
Tyrol participates in the Circle, a secret tribunal on Galactica that tries and convicts in absentia those accused of collaborating with the Cylons during the Occupation. The death sentences--administered without the knowledge of Roslin or Adama--begin to weigh on Tyrol's conscience. Baltar faces a similar jury among the Cylons, who must decide whether he is allowed to stay with them.
Season 3, Episode 6: Torn
Original Air Date: 3 November 2006
The Galactica encounters a Cylon Basestar devastated by a deadly virus. Lingering feelings of rage lead Saul Tigh and Kara Thrace to cause problems aboard Galactica between the survivors from New Caprica and those who stayed with the fleet during the Occupation. Baltar tries to convince the Cylons of his value to them in an attempt to stay alive.
Season 3, Episode 7: A Measure of Salvation
Original Air Date: 10 November 2006
When a group of ill Cylons from the infected Basestar is brought to Galactica, Lee discovers a way to solve the Cylon problem forever - by destroying the whole Cylon race. Meanwhile, D'anna's acts to discover if Baltar is reliable will forge an unusual relationship.
Season 3, Episode 8: Hero
Original Air Date: 17 November 2006
A figure from Adama's past returns to haunt him. His return raises questions about why the Cylons launched their initial attack against the Twelve Colonies.
Season 3, Episode 9: Unfinished Business
Original Air Date: 1 December 2006
A look at the events that took place during the year-long gap from the storyline in the Season Two finale. The story reveals the reasons for the rift between Kara ("Starbuck") and Lee ("Apollo").
Season 3, Episode 10: The Passage
Original Air Date: 8 December 2006
The Colonial fleet makes a "harrowing" journey. "Kat" plays a vital role in the success or failure of the "Passage" through space.
Season 3, Episode 11: The Eye of Jupiter
Original Air Date: 15 December 2006
The crew of Galactica makes a stop at the barren Algae planet.
Season 3, Episode 12: Rapture
Original Air Date: 21 January 2007
The Cylons descend upon the re-supply mission as the Chief races to decipher the markings in the temple believed to hold The Eye of Jupiter, a sacred icon that is believed to contain a map to Earth.
Season 3, Episode 13: Taking a Break from All Your Worries
Original Air Date: 28 January 2007
Baltar plays a game of cat and mouse with Adama and the President, thinking they will kill him once they've gotten out of him what they want to know. Lee deals with his feelings for Kara, while struggling to hang on to his marriage.
Season 3, Episode 14: The Woman King
Original Air Date: 11 February 2007
When a group of refugees board Galactica with a curable illness, it becomes very mysterious when they begin to die after taking the injection they do not believe in.
Season 3, Episode 15: A Day in the Life
Original Air Date: 18 February 2007
The Chief and his wife get trapped in an airlock on a routine maintenance job, while the Admiral copes with his wedding anniversary and the memories of his ex-wife.
Season 3, Episode 16: Dirty Hands
Original Air Date: 25 February 2007
When the head of the fuel production plant holds the fleet hostage by providing unsafe fuel, he's arrested for treason, which results in the Chief sent to the ship and held responsible for getting the plant back up and running.
Season 3, Episode 17: Maelstrom
Original Air Date: 4 March 2007
The Admiral is forced to make the decision of whether to ground Kara Thrace when she begins to show signs of an oncoming nervous breakdown.
Season 3, Episode 18: The Son Also Rises
Original Air Date: 11 March 2007
Besides having to deal with the loss of Kara Thrace, the crew of the Galactica is also charged with the security surrounding the trial of Dr. Baltar and his defense attorney, who is replacing one lawyer that has already been killed.
Season 3, Episode 19: Crossroads: Part 1
Original Air Date: 18 March 2007
Baltar goes on trial for his life, and it affects everyone from Lee on up to the president.
Season 3, Episode 20: Crossroads: Part 2
Original Air Date: 25 March 2007
Coincidences creates new alliances aboard Galactica.
Season 4 Original Air Date: 11 January 2008
 | Edward James Olmos | ... | Admiral William Adama / ... (54 episodes, 2004-2008) |
 | Mary McDonnell | ... | President Laura Roslin / ... (54 episodes, 2004-2008) |
 | Jamie Bamber | ... | Captain Lee 'Apollo' Adama / ... (54 episodes, 2004-2008) |
 | Tricia Helfer | ... | Number Six / ... (54 episodes, 2004-2008) |
 | James Callis | ... | Dr. Gaius Baltar (53 episodes, 2004-2007) |
 | Grace Park | ... | Lt. Sharon 'Boomer' Valerii / ... (53 episodes, 2004-2007) |
 | Katee Sackhoff | ... | Captain Kara 'Starbuck' Thrace / ... (53 episodes, 2004-2008) |
 | Aaron Douglas | ... | Chief Petty Officer Galen Tyrol (50 episodes, 2004-2007) |
 | Michael Hogan | ... | Colonel Saul Tigh (50 episodes, 2004-2007) |
 | Tahmoh Penikett | ... | Lt. Karl C. 'Helo' Agathon / ... (48 episodes, 2004-2007) |
 | Kandyse McClure | ... | Petty Officer Anastasia Dualla / ... (48 episodes, 2004-2007) |
| Alessandro Juliani | ... | Lt. Felix Gaeta / ... (47 episodes, 2004-2007) |
 | Nicki Clyne | ... | Crewman Specialist Cally (34 episodes, 2004-2007) |
 | Bodie Olmos | ... | Brendan 'Hot Dog' Costanza / ... (26 episodes, 2004-2007) |
 | Leah Cairns | ... | Lt. Margaret 'Racetrack' Edmonson (25 episodes, 2005-2007) |
 | Paul Campbell | ... | Billy Keikeya (25 episodes, 2004-2006) |
| Donnelly Rhodes | ... | Dr. Cottle (23 episodes, 2004-2007) |
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Webisodes
The webisodes were a series of shorts produced to promote the third season of the show. They filled in some of the events between the second and third seasons and featured some of the main cast. These webisodes were made so as not to reveal what would happen in the beginning of season three. Season 3 was also set up so that missing the webisodes would not leave a viewer confused about the story.
Each of the ten webisodes was approximately three minutes in length, and they were released twice a week leading up to the U.S. Season 3 premiere.
Caprica
Caprica is a proposed television series described as "television's first science fiction family saga". Caprica will be set on the fictional planet Caprica around fifty years before the events depicted in the 2004 re-imagined series. The show will revolve around two families, the Adamas and the Graystones, the building of the Cylons, and the beginnings of the Cylon War. Whether this series will ultimately be produced was unclear as of May 2007.
Webisodes
The webisodes were a series of shorts produced to promote the third season of the show. They filled in some of the events between the second and third seasons and featured some of the main cast. These webisodes were made so as not to reveal what would happen in the beginning of season three. Season 3 was also set up so that missing the webisodes would not leave a viewer confused about the story.
Each of the ten webisodes was approximately three minutes in length, and they were released twice a week leading up to the U.S. Season 3 premiere.
Caprica
Caprica is a proposed television series described as "television's first science fiction family saga". Caprica will be set on the fictional planet Caprica around fifty years before the events depicted in the 2004 re-imagined series. The show will revolve around two families, the Adamas and the Graystones, the building of the Cylons, and the beginnings of the Cylon War. Whether this series will ultimately be produced was unclear as of May 2007.
Religious and mythological references
Man
As seen in the first two seasons, mankind is polytheistic, believing in multiple gods with inspiration from Greek mythology. Mankind is the descendant of the gods, or the Lords of Kobol as they're called. During mankind's Exodus from the 12 colonies looking for the mythical planet Earth, they find out that the holy scriptures are true and that that Kobol is a cursed planet, due in part to the practice of human sacrifice. Time is perceived in classical Greek fashion of cycles (in contrast to the Judeo-Chrisitian concept of linear time); All of this has happened before and all of this will happen again.
There are also parallels between the twelve Colonies and the twelve tribes of Israel in the search for the promised land and that the Exodus is a trial of faith often personified in the president Laura Roslin. She finds herself a reluctant prophetic figure whose visions help uncover the path to Earth. Her opposite, Dr. Gaius Baltar, is a scientist, and traitor who puts his own welfare ahead of that of others, even to the detriment of the entire remaining human race.
The opening theme song for seasons one, two, and three is a famous Hindu mantra, the Gayatri Mantra, taken from the Rig Veda. The words are "OM bhûr bhuvah svah tat savitur varçnyam bhargô dçvasya dhîmahi dhiyô yô nah pracôdayât", which may be translated in various ways but means approximately "may we attain that excellent glory of Savitar the God / so May he stimulate our prayers".
Cylon
The Cylons are monotheistic in believing in one god, this god however is not the creator. The Cylons look upon themselves as the children of mankind and see their human creators as essentially evil and want to destroy them. Thus the genocide in the beginning of the Miniseries 2003. This resembles Gnostic or dualistic faith with the view of the material creation and the creature as evil (Demiurg) and true salvation comes from a timeless God beyond the creature (personified in Christ in Christian-Gnostic belief). It also resembles the Gnostic idea whereby God's true apparation is concealed from man, not relevated in any scriptures, and can only be perceived by a chosen few in a spiritual way - as Dr. Baltar perceives, the will of the one god by Cylon Number 6 in his mind. But both man and Cylon seems to be living by divine (Judeo-Christian) commandments such as procreation, life is sacred and God is love.
Life and Death
Man seems to have a notion of joining the gods after death, Starbuck seems to favor Athena (Goddess of Knowledge) before Mars (God of War) which rules out a war cult. The Cylons don't have a childhood or die - in fact, they reincarnate with their minds born in to new adult bodies and join the collective culture where there is no room for individuality. But the few Cylons who have experienced deep love or great pain develop feelings and stand out from the collective and become more integrated with their corporeal bodies. A Cylon Number 6 named Gina (mentioned above), who was tortured and abused on the Battlestar Pegasus in the second season, tries to escape reincarnation by ending her life permanently, similar to the Hindu or Buddhist belief of ending the cycle of the material world.
Names
The twelve colonies are named after the astrological signs of the Greek zodiac; for example, Scorpia (Scorpio), Caprica (Capricorn), and Aquaria (Aquarius). Also, several of the characters in the series have names or call signs corresponding to significant characters in Greek mythology, including Apollo, Athena, and Cassiopeia. Kara's last name, Thrace, refers to a region that includes Greece, Bulgaria and Turkey. In Greek mythology this region provided a number of Greek kings (including Lycurgus, Phineas and Orpheus's father) and was known for its mercenaries.
Colonial Warriors (Galactica's Viper pilots) wear a patch on the right shoulder of their flight jackets depicting the Sri Chakra, a yantra.
As seen in the first two seasons, mankind is polytheistic, believing in multiple gods with inspiration from Greek mythology. Mankind is the descendant of the gods, or the Lords of Kobol as they're called. During mankind's Exodus from the 12 colonies looking for the mythical planet Earth, they find out that the holy scriptures are true and that that Kobol is a cursed planet, due in part to the practice of human sacrifice. Time is perceived in classical Greek fashion of cycles (in contrast to the Judeo-Chrisitian concept of linear time); All of this has happened before and all of this will happen again.
There are also parallels between the twelve Colonies and the twelve tribes of Israel in the search for the promised land and that the Exodus is a trial of faith often personified in the president Laura Roslin. She finds herself a reluctant prophetic figure whose visions help uncover the path to Earth. Her opposite, Dr. Gaius Baltar, is a scientist, and traitor who puts his own welfare ahead of that of others, even to the detriment of the entire remaining human race.
The opening theme song for seasons one, two, and three is a famous Hindu mantra, the Gayatri Mantra, taken from the Rig Veda. The words are "OM bhûr bhuvah svah tat savitur varçnyam bhargô dçvasya dhîmahi dhiyô yô nah pracôdayât", which may be translated in various ways but means approximately "may we attain that excellent glory of Savitar the God / so May he stimulate our prayers".
Cylon
The Cylons are monotheistic in believing in one god, this god however is not the creator. The Cylons look upon themselves as the children of mankind and see their human creators as essentially evil and want to destroy them. Thus the genocide in the beginning of the Miniseries 2003. This resembles Gnostic or dualistic faith with the view of the material creation and the creature as evil (Demiurg) and true salvation comes from a timeless God beyond the creature (personified in Christ in Christian-Gnostic belief). It also resembles the Gnostic idea whereby God's true apparation is concealed from man, not relevated in any scriptures, and can only be perceived by a chosen few in a spiritual way - as Dr. Baltar perceives, the will of the one god by Cylon Number 6 in his mind. But both man and Cylon seems to be living by divine (Judeo-Christian) commandments such as procreation, life is sacred and God is love.
Life and Death
Man seems to have a notion of joining the gods after death, Starbuck seems to favor Athena (Goddess of Knowledge) before Mars (God of War) which rules out a war cult. The Cylons don't have a childhood or die - in fact, they reincarnate with their minds born in to new adult bodies and join the collective culture where there is no room for individuality. But the few Cylons who have experienced deep love or great pain develop feelings and stand out from the collective and become more integrated with their corporeal bodies. A Cylon Number 6 named Gina (mentioned above), who was tortured and abused on the Battlestar Pegasus in the second season, tries to escape reincarnation by ending her life permanently, similar to the Hindu or Buddhist belief of ending the cycle of the material world.
Names
The twelve colonies are named after the astrological signs of the Greek zodiac; for example, Scorpia (Scorpio), Caprica (Capricorn), and Aquaria (Aquarius). Also, several of the characters in the series have names or call signs corresponding to significant characters in Greek mythology, including Apollo, Athena, and Cassiopeia. Kara's last name, Thrace, refers to a region that includes Greece, Bulgaria and Turkey. In Greek mythology this region provided a number of Greek kings (including Lycurgus, Phineas and Orpheus's father) and was known for its mercenaries.
Colonial Warriors (Galactica's Viper pilots) wear a patch on the right shoulder of their flight jackets depicting the Sri Chakra, a yantra.
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