The Galactica has found water on a nearby ice planet. Now they have to get it to the fleet. The idea of using the prisoners aboard the Astral Queen is floated, and problems ensue in Bastille Day. Written by Toni Graphia this episode was first broadcast on 21 January, 2005. The episode features some of…
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Battlestar Galactica (2005) – 33, and Water
Just over a year after the miniseries aired, the first season of the reimagined Battlestar Galactica launched on 14 January, 2005. It opened with an episode titled 33. It’s tense, it’s well-crafted and a helluva way to launch the main series. Written by Ronald D. Moore who also served as the series showrunner, it finds…
Battlestar Galactica (2003) – Episode 2
So how did Lee ‘Apollo’ Adama (Jamie Bamber) and Colonial One survive the Cylon assault? The EMP generators that were offhandedly mentioned in part one, saved the day. The second half of the miniseries was first broadcast on 9 December, 2003. It was written by Ronald D. Moore and Glen Larson (as Christopher Eric Johnson)….
Battlestar Galactica (2003) – Episode 1
Ronald D. Moore, who was a driving storytelling force behind Star Trek: The Next Generation, took Glen Larson’s beloved (but expensive) 70s television series and retooled it. He and his creative crew and cast delivered a proof-of-concept miniseries, which would introduce us to the characters and situations that would drive this incarnation. The miniseries aired…
Get Smart (1969) – The Not-So-Great Escape: Part 2, Pheasant Under Glass, and Ironhand
Season 4 of Get Smart ended on 29 March, 1969. Chris Hayward and Arne Sultan penned the script, and Don Adams once again directed the episode. Smart (Adams) and his fellow CONTROL agents are planning to escape the KAOS prison camp in New Jersey, and there will be lots of riffing on the classic film….
Stargate: Atlantis (2007) – Adrift, and Lifeline
Atlantis is right where we left her at the end of season three, stranded in space, a damaged ZPM, and decreasing odds of survival. Adrift opened season four on 28 September, 2007. It was written by Martin Gero. The pressure is on! McKay (David Hewlett) is trying to figure out a way to get the…
Stargate: The Ark of Truth (2008) – Robert C. Cooper
It’s time to wrap up the Ori storyline for Stargate SG-1. But saying it and doing it are two different things, as Mitchell (Ben Browder), Carter (Amanda Tapping), Teal’c (Christopher Judge), Vala (Claudia Black) and Jackson (Micheal Shanks) are going to have their hands full. They have found the weapon that could stop the Ori,…
Stargate: Atlantis (2007) – Vengeance, and First Strike
The penultimate episode of season three is setting things up for the season three finale. Written by Carl Binder, this episode debuted on 15 June, 2007. Remember the people who lived on the planet with the super-volcano? The Taranin. Well, the expedition has lost contact with their new settlement. So Sheppard (Joe Flanigan), McKay (David…
Battlestar Galactica: Warhawk (1998) – Richard Hatch, and Christopher Golden
Richard Hatch’s second installment in the continuation of the original Battlestar Galactica moves a little better than the first one. The characters have been introduced now, but even so, there are few things that happen that makes it feel like the stories are falling back on what has already happened as opposed to taking things…
Battlestar Galactica: Armageddon (1997) – Richard Hatch and Christopher Golden
Almost twenty years after we last saw the original Galactica fly off into the starscape with the episode The Hand of God (no one really counts Galactica 1980 as canon), series star Richard Hatch paired up with author Christopher Golden to continue the intergalactic space opera. The first of seven novels helmed by Hatch has…
The Mind Reels 