Where do we go after that incredible ending last episode with the Galactica and Pegasus launching fighters at one another? Helo (Tahmoh Penikett) and Tyrol (Aaron Douglas) are being prepared for summary execution because of the efforts they made to save Boomer (Grace Park), and Adama (Edward James Olmos) is not going to let that…
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Battlestar Galactica (2005) – Home: Part 1, and Part 2
Adama (Edward James Olmos) attempts to deal with the loss of twenty-four ships to Roslin’s (Mary McDonnell) religious ploy, leading them to Kobol, where they await Sarbuck (Katee Sackhoff) and the Arrow of Apollo. Home is a two-part story whose first episode debuted on 19 August, 2005. It was written by David Eick. A number…
Battlestar Galactica (2005) – Valley of Darkness, and Fragged
Bradley Thompson and David Weddle delivered Valley of Darkness which first aired on 22 July, 2005. Things remain severely frakked. After the screw-up with the FTL last episode, there’s a Cylon virus in Galactica’s system that needs to be removed, but there are also Centurions aboard. Adama (Edward James Olmos) remains in a coma, leaving…
Batttlestar Galactica (2005) – Colonial Day, and Kobol’s Last Gleaming: Part 1
Colonial Day was first broadcast on 18 March, 2005. It was written by Carla Robinson. With Colonial Day approaching, Roslin (Mary McDonnell) announces a formation of a new Quorum of the Twelve. Each of the colonies of man will have a representative on this ruling board. Things are thrown for a loop, however, when Tom…
Battlestar Galactica (2005) – Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down, and The Hand of God
Both Tigh (Michel Hogan) and Adama (Edward James Olmos) have major problems this week in Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down. Written by Jeff Vleming and directed by Olmos, this episode was first broadcast on 4 March, 2005. Following the Cylon interrogation in the last episode, Roslin (Mary McDonnell) begins to harbour suspicions that Adama…
Battlestar Galactica (2005) – You Can’t Go Home Again, and Litmus
Last time, we left Starbuck (Katee Sackoff) coming down for a crash landing on a barren moon. In You Can’t Go Home Again, written by Carla Robinson, and first airing on 4 February, 2005, the story picks right up from there. Starbuck is struggling to survive and find a way off planet and back to…
Battlestar Galactica (2005) – Bastille Day, and Act of Contrition
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…
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…
Galactica 1980 (1980) – Space Croppers, and The Return of Starbuck
The penultimate episode of the short-lived series, Galactica 1980, is Space Croppers, and it is the last time we see Troy (Kent McCord), Dillon (Barry Van Dyke) and Jamie (Robyn Douglass) in the series. Written by Robert McCullough, this episode debuted on 27 March, 1980, and once again lets the series lean into a little…
Battlestar Galactica 9: Experiment in Terra (1984) – Ron Goulart and Glen A. Larson
This week, I dive into another Galactica adaptation. Not coming out until 1984, years after the show was cancelled, this novel adapts a pair of episodes, Baltar’s Escape and Experiment in Terra (which on retrospect feels like a trial run for the Bellasario created Quantum Leap). This time out there are no Adama’s Journals or…
The Mind Reels 