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…
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Battlestar Galactica (2005) – Resistance, and The Farm
So let’s get some more important subject matter into our sci-fi. This time we delve into even more of the need for democracy in heightened situations as Tigh (Michael Hogan) declares martial law through the fleet, and Roslin (Mary McDonnell) and Apollo (Jamie Bamber) oppose him. Resistance was written by Toni Graphia, and it first…
Battlestar Galactica (2005) – Kobol’s Last Gleaming: Part 2, and Scattered
The conclusion of the first season of the reimagined Battlestar Galactica first aired on 1 April, 2005. It was written by showrunner Ronald D. Moore from a story by David Eick. Adama (Edward James Olmos) is furious with Roslin (Mary McDonnell) for convincing Starbuck (Katee Sackhoff) to take the Cylon Raider and fly it back…
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) – Six Degrees of Separation, and Flesh and Bone
Six Degrees of Separation was written by Michael Angeli and was first broadcast on 18 February, 2005. After Baltar (James Callis) mocks the faith of Six (Tricia Helfer) and her fellow Cylons, he discovers he’s really stepped in it, when another Six shows up, a physical version, as opposed to the one in her head….
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…
Battlestar Galactica 3: The Tombs of Kobol (1979) – Robert Thurston, and Glen A. Larson
The journey towards the mythical planet known as Earth continues for the lone battlestar, Galactica, and the ragtag fleet of humanity that it escorts, in Thurston’s next novel which adapts the epic two-parter The Lost Planet of the Gods, which was the first pair of episodes following the series three hour opener, Saga of a…
Battlestar Galactica (1978) – Lost Planet of the Gods
This week’s look at Galactica, in the Bellisario & Cannell files, sees the two-parter which aired part one on September 24, 1978, and part two on October 1, 1978. Written By Glen A. Larson and Bellisario the series continues its space opera sense of storytelling, alongside some outdated thoughts on women. The episode opens…
The Mind Reels 