Tried to do a quick search and didn’t see that posted here. Found something from a year ago saying it was on Peacock but not anymore. Just noticed it for free on Amazon Prime Video and thought I’d share. Happy hunting!

Having already watched BSG, I thought I'd like to watch the Caprica prequel. These 2 DVD sets are available through the local library association. Based upon the descriptions I've found I can't tell if Caprica 1.5 includes everything on Caprica Season 1 or is in addition to that DVD set. I don't want to order both if I don't need to.

Why did Kara just disappear? What was she? She was okay with sending Sam into the sun? Why did everyone split up? Why did Bill Adama go off to a mountaintop? To die alone? And what about his Raptor? How was Galen planning on getting to the island off the highlands?

i'm looking for a specific version of All Along the Watchtower from one of the episodes. I have all the albums and have been flipping through tracks trying to find it but can't seem to nail it down.

I remember one episode where there is a mellow, instrumental only version of the song. I think its playing as the Galactica crew are planning a mission. I realize that doesn't narrow it down much. I'm hoping someone here can remember what i'm looking for.

I am new to the show and picked up a bunch of BSG dvd's hoping to get into it. Is there a BSG movie called "Razor" ? and a separate season 4.0 disc 1 show called "Razor"? Or is it the same thing? Thanks!

This was my most played song on YouTube

Original post by u/Pugs-and-coffee2213 - https://www.reddit.com/r/BSG/s/FHhcUnbVZ2

Gaius Baltar was Bridget Jones’ gay best friend before he moved to the colonies.

I know James Callis probably did tons of other things but this did make me chuckle as I’ve been bingeing BST again and put this on for a change.

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA PART I: AN EXODUS BEGINS

Adapted Screenplay written by Robert D.C. Barnes III (PeachLover94)

Based on Characters and Scenarios of the Television Series "Battlestar Galactica"

Created in 1978 by Glen A. Larson, Leslie Stevens and Donald P. Bellisario

And Re-Imagined in 2003 by Glen A. Larson, Ronald D. Moore and David Eick

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA PART I: AN EXODUS BEGINS
Story Treatment

The Logline

A condensed retelling of the story of Battlestar Galactica, in which the totalitarian forces of a galaxy (Cylons' union) destroy the Twelve Colonies of Kobol - leaving the survivors in a fleet of ships under their last battlestar Galactica to seek out and save their kin on Earth.

The Main Characters

NOAH ADAMA (ADAMA) - Age: 120 (60). Rank: Commander (later Admiral). Physical features have a mix of Caucasian and East Asian (Japanese) roots such as a tall body, light olive skin, long and dark graying hair, and brown eyes. Uniform includes a blue tunic and pants with silver trim, black boots and belt, and a blue long coat. Adama is the fatherly, wise Commanding Officer of the Galactica. His struggle to lead the survivors of the human race to safety on Earth from the Cylons and their allies is exacerbated by a demon from his past - his foiling of Count Asmodeus Baltar's attempt to buy the election of President Richard Adar for himself; leading to Baltar hunting him down.

SAUL TIGH (TIGH) - Age: 96 (48). Rank: Colonel. Physical features have him with African roots with a medium-tall build, dark brown skin tone, brown eyes and brown hair in a mop-top cut. Uniform remains similar to Adama's except without the long coat. Tigh for the longest time has been Adama's rational and rule-abiding best friend and confidant while serving as the Executive Officer of the Galactica. Among many in the fleet, he is not one who would be taken as having a sense of humor, but those who know him are able to have him play many a practical joke on officers and regale the Warriors with embarrassing anecdotes of his and Adama's younger days to Adama's chagrin.

LAURA ROSLIN (ROSLIN) - Age: 108 (54). Title: Vice President (later President). Physical features have her with Caucasian and even Native American roots such as a medium-tall build, light toned skin, long brown hair and green eyes with glasses. Uniform is similar to those worn by Galactica's Colonial Warriors, consisting of a beige tunic and pants with gold trim on the tunic, black boots and belt, but with the addition of a brown cape with gold trim like the dress uniforms and wielding an Electro-Sword. A former war hero like her friends Adama and Tigh, she served as their liaison on the Council of Twelve to the late Adar. In the search for Earth, she is Adama's guide on spiritual matters.

APOLLO ADAMA (APOLLO) - Age: 58 (29). Rank: Captain. Physical features have him with those common to his father Adama and twin sister Athena, but with his long and dark hair in a pageboy cut. Uniform is the standard Colonial Warrior uniform with brown flight jacket and the standard issue laser blaster. Apollo is Galactica's head Viper pilot, leading Blue Squadron in the defense of the rag-tag fugitive fleet. He is married to a military journalist Serina, with whom they have an 16-yahren-old (8-year-old) son named Boxey and a mechanical pet daggit (dog) named Muffit. With Apollo's life currently being mired in tragedy, the necessity of his wife and son going to the front lines scares him.

STARBUCK THRACE (STARBUCK) - Age: 58 (29). Rank: Lieutenant J.G. (later Lieutenant). Physical features have him with Caucasian and Hispanic roots such as a medium-tall build, fair skinned, blue eyes and titian hair in a medium-length curly mop (Jewfro). Uniform is the standard Colonial Warrior uniform with brown flight jacket and standard issue laser blaster. A close friend of the Adama family, they are his surrogate family ever since he was orphaned during an earlier Cylon attack on Caprica. Adama and Tigh are quite amused by his gambling, fumarello (cigar) smoking, womanizing ways as leader of Red Squadron, which makes them nostalgic for their old days serving with Roslin.

ELIJAH BOOMER (BOOMER) - Age: 62 (31). Rank: Lieutenant. Physical features have him with African roots with a medium-tall build, dark brown skin tone, brown eyes and brown hair in a short Afro that military regulations permit. Uniform is the standard issue Colonial Warrior uniform that Apollo, Starbuck, Athena and Sheba wear complete with brown flight jacket and laser blaster. Boomer seems the antithesis of his closest friend, Lieutenant Starbuck, and tends to think more logically. However, like Starbuck, Boomer is also a consummate Viper pilot, willing to risk his life for friend and innocent. He became a Viper pilot for Galactica sometime after tours of duty on planetary outposts.

ATHENA ADAMA (ATHENA) - Age: 58 (29). Rank: Lieutenant. Physical features have her with those common to her father Adama and twin brother Apollo, but her long and dark hair is in a Hime cut. Aside from her standard Colonial Warrior uniform, the only variations on it she has are a brown cape like Roslin's with the dual wielding of a laser blaster in one hand and an Electro-Sword in another. As a Viper pilot for Blue Squadron, Athena sometimes pulls duty as Galactica's relief helmsman. She revels in the chance to fly Vipers and defend her people, but also keeps a great deal of tabs on occurrences in the scientific community. It is rumored she and Starbuck compete for Cassiopeia.

SHEBA CAIN (SHEBA) - Age: 50 (25). Rank: Lieutenant. Physical features have her with both Caucasian and Hispanic roots of medium-tall build, olive skin, green eyes and auburn hair in a bouncy layered shag. Uniform is a standard Colonial Warrior uniform complete with a flight jacket, but with the insignia patches of the Viper squadrons she leads on the Battlestar Pegasus. It is rumored that she had an eye for Apollo like his wife Serina did before she and her parents were presumably lost at the Battle of Molecay. In truth, she and her parents the Cains had been sent by the Council on a mission with the Pegasus to map out the course to Earth. She replaces the fallen Lieutenant Sorrell.

DANAE CASSIOPEIA (CASSIE) - Age: 56 (28). Title: Doctor. Physical features have her with Caucasian and or Nordic roots of medium build, fair skinned, light blue eyes and fair hair in a feathered (Farrah Fawcett) style. Uniform is a light beige medical tunic with gold trim and knee-length skirt and brown boots with a brown overcoat. An attractive, level-headed woman with her own strengths, Cassiopeia's admirable dedication to the Hippocratic Oath makes her the perfect choice for Galactica's Chief Medical Officer. Many in the Warriors believe that she and Starbuck are an item, but she is instead competing with Starbuck for Athena's affections. Those in the fleet often revel in some of her worldliness.

The Background

"There are those who believe... that life here... began out there. Far across the Universe... with tribes of humans... who may have been the forefathers of the Egyptians... or the Toltecs... or the Mayans. That they may have been the architects of the Great Pyramids... or the lost civilizations of Lemuria... or Atlantis. Some believe that there may yet be brothers of man... who even now fight to survive somewhere beyond the heavens." These words begin the Book of the Lords of Kobol, the rulers of the ancient mother world of all humans - where life supposedly begun. After a great cataclysm threatened the planet, the thirteen tribes of humanity set out to establish planetary colonies.

Those twelve that stuck together found a distant star system of four suns with several planets, moons and belts of asteroids orbiting in their habitable zones. The habitable planets the humans settled on became known as the Confederacy of the Twelve Colonies of Kobol and all are named after the major constellations of a universal Zodiac - Aerilon, Aquarius, Canceria, Caprica, Gemini, Leonis, Libro, Piscera, Sagitara, Scorpio, Taura and Virgon. The thirteenth tribe which left Kobol set out for a distant star system consisting of nine planets orbiting a single sun - with the third being the most likely candidate for supporting life. The humans of the thirteenth tribe are said to have settled on Earth.

The Premise

Historically, Battlestar Galactica has been an amalgamation of the story of the Biblical Book of Exodus, the concepts of Chariots of the Gods? by Erich von Däniken, the space opera adventure of Star Wars (more specifically Episode IV: A New Hope) and the wagon train to the stars approach to exploring the human condition as exemplified by Star Trek (more specifically The Original Series). Although the original incarnation was mired by budget and genre conventions, the full potential of the original 1978 premise had been taken to a logical extreme in its 2003 incarnation. Now, there can be a balance to all the approaches in a four-quadrant five-act epic space fantasy film.

The main villain Count Baltar's relentless pursuit of Adama can be likened to Khan's harried chase of Captain Kirk in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, as he sells out his own kind to suffer death and destruction at the hands of his allies in the Cylon Union to advance his pursuit of revenge for having been foiled in a contemporary politically timely plot to buy an election. Our heroes, in the course of their odyssey across the stars, will have to prevent the enemy from obtaining and using a terraforming device called Anastasis (recalling the Genesis Device) which turns death into life against them to use as a weapon of mass destruction (recalling the Death Star). They even explore themselves.

The Nemeses

Aside from their few inner demons, fears and insecurities; the enemies who are chasing the survivors of the human race have been at war with them for over a thousand yahrens (Colonial human term for year). The Cylon Union consists of several belligerent factions: the porcine criminals of the Boray Crime Syndicate, the insectoid Ovion Hive, the renegade fascist humans of the Eastern Alliance, the warrior Guild of the Neanderthal-resembling Borellian Nomen, and the one faction that could unite them against the humans of the Colonies - the One Cylon Empire: a race of humanoid machines built for the extinct intelligent reptiles called Cylons by certain humans allied with the original Cylons.

Due to the influence of some dark power (presumably the work of the enigmatic Count Iblis), the Imperious Leader - the supreme ruler of the Cylon Empire - turned against his reptilian and human creators and ordered his subjects, the Cylon Centurions, to exterminate every human life form and any being whom the Imperious Leader saw as a threat to the Union. Thus began a thousand yahren war between the Colonials and the Cylons' Union. Now, a renegade human; a Colonial Warrior too named Count Asmodeus Baltar, is plotting to sell his kind out for extinction at his allies the Cylons' hands for revenge on Noah Adama for Adama foiling his plot to buy the election of President Adar.

IMPERIOUS LEADER - Age: Unknown (potentially numbering thousands of yahrens). Position: Ruler of the Cylon Empire and by extent the Union. Physical features have him with a red and green-scaled reptilian head with three brains, a tall muscular build, and sharp talons on his hands and feet. Uniform is a very regal red robe with a black hood that make the back of his head look like an Afro, with a standard weapon being an Electro-Staff. The Imperious Leader is the highest authority of the Union. There can only be a single Imperious Leader, although there are others to replace him should he be destroyed. It is rumored he was corrupted against the human race by Count Iblis.

ASMODEUS BALTAR (BALTAR) - Age: 110 (55). Title: Count. Physical features have him with Caucasian roots with tall build, fair skin, short hair that is brown, and brown eyes. Uniform is a green under suit over which the gold armor and helmet of a Cylon Command Centurion is worn with a black cape and Electro-Sword; making Baltar a black knight in space. He was once a prolific war hero who served with Adama, Tigh, Roslin, Adar and the Cains who went into politics. His reputation soiled for trying to buy Adar's election for President, he allied himself in secret with the Cylon Union to conquer the Colonies and kill Adama. He commands his own Cylon Basestar to hunt Adama's fleet down.

LUCIFER - Age: Unknown. Lucifer is Baltar's primary Cylon aide and liaison to the Imperious Leader. As an IL-Series Cylon, he has two eyes, similar in proportion to the eyes of humans, as well as a less-robotic monotone, yet harmonious male voice. He also expresses emotion, after a fashion, such as jealousy, power lust, and even laughter. The Imperious Leader has placed him under Baltar's command, whom he serves faithfully as one part of the Starbuck to Baltar's Captain Ahab. As long as Lucifer serves him well, Baltar has come to see more than just a mere servant in Lucifer, but something of a son in him. Baltar hopes to install Lucifer as the Cylons' Imperious Leader.

NOGOW - Age: Unknown. Title: High Priest. Physical features place him as a boar-like porcine being with pale pink skin; large nose; single central cranial ridge; pointed ears; and bushy blonde hair encompassing his head, as well as a mustache, beard and sideburns. Uniform is a black under suit over which the chrome armor and specially-designed helmet of a Cylon Centurion is worn. Like most Borays, High Priest Nogow inhabits the planet Sectar. While the Borays originally were an agrarian race, they find that it is easier to take what they wish from humans at the Serenity settlement during full moons, rather than raising their own crops. Nogow is their crime syndicate's liaison to Baltar.

SIX - Age: 28 (in appearance). Class: Infiltrator. Physical features place her with somewhat Caucasian roots with fair skin, a medium-tall build, long hair platinum blonde in color, and blue eyes. Uniforms consist of either a sensuous, bright red dress with black high heels; or a green tunic and pants with beige-brown boots and a maroon cape. Like her counterparts, Six's body is designed to mimic the human body at the cellular level, only detectable by silicon scan, and there are many copies of her in existence. Sixes tend to have individualistic traits, and are considerably susceptible to the full array of human emotions. Six is one part of the Starbuck to Baltar's Ahab with some pathos.

LOTAY - Age: Unknown. Title: Hive Queen. Physical features have her as a hexapodic (six-limbed) insectoid like her fellow Ovions with a dark olive green exoskeleton, glowing yellow eyes, and a mandible mouth. Uniform is a rather dusty modified Medieval princess outfit with an Electro-Staff as a defining mark of her queen status. The insectoid, six-limbed Ovions are part of the Union. With their theme park cities on certain planets, Lotay and her people lure humans to these oases to herd the humans into elevators to the subterranean depths, to turn humans into Ovion chow. They also deal in smelting down broken junk. Lotay hopes to feed her hungry people with the surviving humans.

VALERII - Age: 28 (in appearance). Cylon Model Number: 8. Physical features place her with East Asian roots with light olive skin, dark hair in a Hime cut like Athena, brown eyes and a medium-tall build. Uniform is a green and brown flight suit perfect for mimicking the Raptor pilots in the Colonial Fleet. Eights often serve as squadron commanders for the numerous Cylon Raiders stationed aboard Basestars. Unlike most other Humanoid Cylon models, Eights show more concern and affection towards others. Eights tend to be the most naive of models and are often emotionally immature. Capable of convincing manipulation, they are vulnerable to forming strong emotional attachments.

MAGA - Age: 108 (54). Title: Solar Chieftain. Physical features include a medium-toned skin, long dark hair with grizzled mountain beards and mustaches, and a a bony ridge on his forehead unlike typical humans from the Twelve Colonies. Uniform at best description can be a cross between that of an Alaskan Inuit and a Norse Viking warrior. Borellian Nomen like him wholly loathe associating themselves with the Colonies and make every attempt to devastate Colonial livelihood with their meager starfighters and ground soldiers. As his people's leader and representative in the Union, he is one of Baltar's main muscle people. His deep vendetta against the Colonies is called a "blood hunt".

LEITER - Age: 54. Rank: Commandant. Physical features have him with Caucasian roots of Aryan phenotype with a medium-tall build, fair skinned, short yet graying brownish-blonde hair and blue eyes. Uniform is a standard black tunic, pants and boots with silver epaulet-type shoulder pads completed with a military officer cap and laser blaster which would recall uniforms of the World War II-era SS uniforms of the Third Reich. Just as with the Third Reich of the 20th Century Earth before them, Leiter takes to heart a dark mantra that is the strongest shall trod over the weak to inherit the Universe. Since the Union and Eastern Alliance work together, he is Baltar's Eastern Alliance liaison.

CYLON CENTURIONS - Class: Infantry and Pilot. Centurions are the workhorses of the Cylon Empire. Acting as infantry and pilot, a Centurion is as versatile as it is shiny. Used in any front-line encounter, the chrome-armored Centurions are the only type of Cylon a Colonial Warrior is likely to ever directly encounter. Centurions speak with a mechanical voice, typically responding to orders with the iconic phrase "By your command". They only answer to IL-Series Cylons or gold-armored Command Centurions. Centurions are made using the most advanced of robotics, beyond a Colonial's understanding. Centurions travel with bayonet-equipped laser rifles, and Electro-Swords for very close combat.

HUMANOID CYLONS - Age: Varied. Class: Varied. Physical Features: Varied. Cylon Model Number: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13. Eight male in appearance, five female, but all Cylons. These are a new breed and generation of Cylon that want to inherit a vast dynasty the Imperious Leader and his cybernetic followers promise them, but are also conflicted about the dogma involved. We already know of Numbers Six and Eight; but One is Brother John Cavil, Two is Leoben Conoy, Three is D'Anna Biers, Four is Simon O'Neill, Five is one Aaron Doral, Seven is simply Daniel, Nine is the hotshot Longshot, Ten is lady Tory, Eleven is lady Ellen, Twelve is Tyrol, and last is grizzled Saol.

The Heroes and the Twist

It would be best to describe the main heroes in terms of how they relate to the three parts of the Freudian psyche; the ego, the id and the superego. Adama, Apollo and Athena have always been the best mediators of them to be the ego. Roslin, Starbuck and Cassiopeia derive passion and faith from morality and the Lords of Kobol to channel the instinct of the id properly. Tigh, Boomer and Sheba have always been voices of rational reason for Adama and the Cains, making them the perfect superego. After the destruction of their home planets, they must pull strength from each other in order to survive and save the Earth. They are tested by Baltar's bloodlust and need for Anastasis.

The Story Breakdown

Prologue

1.    Over scenes of Earth, the planet Kobol, the Twelve Colonies, the Cylon Homeworld and other places in space; two ever mysterious and ethereal voices lay out the concept for the story. The thought of man having extraterrestrial origins is a major part of it, which will segue into a history of the Cyrannus Galaxy. The story goes that when Kobol was doomed, twelve of its human tribes settled on twelve planets to found the Colonies. Soon it tells of how human scientists helped create for the reptilian Cylons their new and even deadlier successors of robotic Cylons - leading to the Cylons whipping up several disparate alien factions against the Colonies in a thousand yahren (year) war.

Act I

2.    We then cut to the Battlestar Galactica; leading a fleet of others like it such as the Atlantia, Acropolis, Columbia, Pacifica, Solaria and the Triton back home to their Twelve Colonies. In Galactica's Core Command (bridge), Commander Adama is discussing his feelings and or misgivings about the potential armistice between the Colonies and the Union with his two trusted confidants Colonel Tigh and Vice President Laura Roslin who is a former warrior who served alongside them. Adama remembers Count Asmodeus Baltar's grudge for his foiling Baltar's plan to buy Adar's presidential election. But the communications officer Rigel confides in Roslin that the armistice will be good shore leave.

3.    Before the fleet splits off, Adama confides in Tigh and Roslin that the Cain family and their Battlestars Pegasus and Valkyrie were not destroyed as first believed - but sent on a mission to find the planet Earth. Meanwhile, an Eastern Alliance Destroyer ferries Baltar to the Cylon Imperious Leader's fleet of Basestars orbiting the gas giant Ragnar. Baltar is planning to sell his people in the Colonies out to die at the hands of the Cylons' union, with him ruling over the survivors. Aboard the main Basestar, Baltar meets with the Imperious Leader to relay that everything is on schedule. As the Union fleet gets underway to attack, Baltar orders his Basestar to head for planet Paradeen.

4.    On Adama's home colony of Caprica, a meeting is taking place inside the City Presidium. Among those in attendance are the President Richard Adar, Adama's eldest twin children Apollo and Athena, Galactica's chief medical officer Danae Cassiopeia, and their fellow Warriors such as Starbuck Thrace, Elijah Boomer and Sorrell. Adama and Roslin address the crowd to evacuate the Colonies until it can be confirmed from both the Cylons' Union and the Colonies that their defense systems have powered down. A little later as the process of evacuation is underway, fellow warrior Jolly reports that Cylon crafts are overrunning their outer defense posts, intending to destroy all of the Colonies.

5.    Apollo and Athena's younger brother Zac is under attack, but he kamikazes his Viper into a Cylon Basestar as it destroys the gas giant Zeus. Cassiopeia has Apollo's wife Serina, son Boxey, and daggit (dog) Muffit safely aboard the evacuating starliner Rising Star to head for the rendezvous point via hyperskip. Union ships completely overwhelm the Colonial Military fleet, as President Adar's Battlestar the Atlantia falls victim to Cylon Raider kamikaze. Adama's wife Marine Sergeant Major Ila tries to herd evacuating citizens out of Caprica City just as the Basestars' mega pulsar cannons begin reducing the planet to rubble. Ila is killed in the blast, but she gave her own life to save others.

6.    The Battlestar named Columbia carries members of the Council of Twelve as it kamikazes itself and some Ovion cruisers into a Cylon Basestar just before Scorpio's atmosphere explodes in fire. Its sacrifice buys time for a Tiger-class destroyer to escort a few more of the evacuating ships into hyperskip to the rendezvous point. Adama and a safe Roslin then order all surviving pilots and warriors to meet up aboard the Galactica and head with her to the rendezvous point. As the Colonies and their asteroid and moon outposts begin to fall to the Union and Cylons, Vipers and Raptors escort Shuttles to Galactica as the remaining Battlestars buy time. Galactica soon jumps to hyperskip.

Act II

7.    Galactica pulls out of hyperskip at the designated rendezvous point - the Otarsis Quadrant ice crystal field. Here, dozens of shuttles carry representatives of every ship in the 220+ Colonial starship fleet over to Galactica to discuss the next course of action. Adama and Roslin address the attendees that their worlds have been lost, but they may still have hope - in the form of their distant cousins on a colony in a galaxy that only comes into maximum hyperskip range once a millennium. That colony planet founded by descendants of their mother civilization from planet Kobol is named Earth. For now, volunteers for new pilots and Colonial Warriors must now be screened and trained.

8.    The Commandant of the Eastern Alliance named Leiter and the Solar Chieftain of the Borellian Nomen arrive at Baltar's Basestar to relay the report on the final assault. In the Fall of the Colonies, the Imperious Leader and his Basestar were destroyed by one last warship that escaped to rendezvous with the surviving Colonials' fleet to escape. Upon hearing it was the Galactica, Baltar begins to be consumed by rage, fearing for the safety of his cohorts. Declaring he will hunt Adama down to the ends of the Universe, he orders they alter course to intercept the Galactica and her fleet. In the showers aboard Galactica, Athena and Sorrell worry about the Cylons trying to gain Anastasis.

9.    Cassiopeia is just about to deliver a physical scan result wait-list to the Warriors when they head to Adama's quarters to discuss the Union's inquiries about Anastasis. It is there that they learn what Project Anastasis is - a process whereby matter is reorganized at the subatomic level into life generating matter of equal mass. The end goal is to develop a series of missiles which when tested on moons or other dead forms, the "Miracle of Anastasis" turns dead moons or asteroids into Eden-like paradise planets able to support human life. Tigh reveals the reason why it was hidden and classified - Anastasis could be perverted into a weapon of mass destruction in the wrong hands.

10.    As the fleet orbits the planet Kobol, a scouting party with Serina and Boxey is deciphering the writings in a pyramid tomb housing the dead Sagan, the Ninth Lord of Kobol. Just then, Adama's navigator Omega reports to them and Rigel that a Basestar, presumably carrying human survivors that have taken over, is coming to rendezvous with them. Adama orders his Warriors to launch their Vipers and probe the incoming Basestar as Galactica and the Tiger destroyer now named Colonial One prepare for the worst. In truth, it is Baltar's Basestar, trying to bait Adama with hope of Ila still being alive - able to lead survivors and take over a Basestar to meet back up with her husband.

11.    Tigh and Adama begin to grow suspicious, which is when Baltar orders his ship's shields be raised and all the laser turrets fire on Galactica and her engineering section. In engineering, the chief engineering officer Doctor Gaius Baltar (Count Baltar's little brother) relays to the bridge that the main reactor has to be shut down due to the damage. The Vipers roar into life to take out the Basestar laser turrets but are soon waylaid by Cylon Raiders. Sustaining damage, Sorrell kamikazes her Viper into a Raider, both consumed by fire and smoke. When it seems Galactica is helpless, Baltar contacts Adama and demands he surrender himself and Anastasis so the fleet will be spared.

Act III

12.    Adama prepares to shuttle over while the Galactica crew work to send a command signal to force the Basestar to lower its shield to allow a counterattack. Just then, another Battlestar begins opening fire on the Basestar - it is the Pegasus under the command of the Cain family of Admiral Garris Cain and Rear Admiral Helena Cain with their daughter Lieutenant Sheba leading squadrons of Vipers to help out. With the gyros and laser targeting controls damaged by the Pegasus and Galactica's counterattacks, Six and Lucifer demand that Baltar retreat to lick their wounds for the moment. The Cains contact Adama and give him some good news that they know the way to Earth.

13.    Pegasus sends its medical officer Salik and engineering officer Wilker over to Galactica to both tend to the wounded and patch up the hyperskip engines before they have to recover the scouting party from Kobol and move out in order to get to Earth before the Union forces can. As they arrive at the first way-point, Paradeen, a prison riot suddenly breaks out on the Astral Queen prison barge. Now guided by the voice of the enigmatic and omnipresent Count Iblis, a group of convicts allied with the Union use the riot as cover to commandeer a shuttle down to Paradeen. In order to stop them, Adama and Roslin go with a team of warriors in their Vipers down to where Anastasis is stored.

14.    Sensing that Baltar's Basestar was trailing them to Paradeen and a scouting party had landed in search of Anastasis, Roslin draws an electro-sword to go hunting for Baltar. The rest of the Colonial scouting party is made up of Adama, Apollo, Athena, Boomer, Boxey, Cassiopeia, Muffit, Serina, Sheba and Starbuck who move down into the caverns where the Anastasis materials are being kept - taking up their main defensive positions around them. Roslin, one of the last masters of electro-sword combat in the fleet, completely demolishes Baltar's platoon of Cylon Centurions before engaging in a lengthy duel with the armored villain himself. This is when the convicts reveal their allegiances to Baltar.

15.    Driven by an immense fury and determination, Baltar and his convict spies keep pushing Roslin towards the Anastasis materials to take them for the Union. The Colonials fight back hard with everything they can, but the spies buy time for Baltar to send for Nogow and Lotay to grab Anastasis and flee. As he escapes in his Eastern Alliance Destroyer, Baltar tells Adama over unicom that he wants to continue hurting him, by leaving them to suffer as they made him suffer. With her last nerves seemingly snapped, Athena screams Baltar's name on unicom with rage seemingly out of fear he would go on to destroy the fleet, but it is all an act to lull Baltar into a false sense of superiority.

16.    The sun sets down on Paradeen, and Baltar's forces have gotten away taking Anastasis for themselves, ready to use as they see fit. It would seem as though Baltar has finally beaten Adama and that they and Earth will soon be destroyed by the Union and its few forces. In looking for some food and water with Serina and Boxey, Athena and Cassiopeia soon discover a distant sunrise from inside the hollowed out cavern of Paradeen created by the Miracle of Anastasis - which harbors a lush and vibrant paradise. Feeling renewed, Adama contacts the fleet and receives a welcome reply. The Cains send down shuttles to rescue them and bring them back up for their final hyperskip to Earth.

Act IV

17.    With a little luck, the entire fleet manages to arrive in Earth orbit with Baltar behind them. Adama and the Cains order their Warriors to launch all Vipers and Raptors to battle the Union attack crafts and protect both the fleet and Earth. The Battle of Earth gets underway as the Galactica and Pegasus begin departing the Earth for the nearby Gehenna Maelstrom (combination asteroid field, nebula and ion storm) to draw Baltar away. Both Battlestars swing into battle mode as the crew members are arming and loading the torpedo bays and manning the laser turrets. Confident is his fighters' abilities, Baltar and his subjects take their Basestar out of orbit after the Galactica and Pegasus.

18.    In a stroke of genius, Adama taunts Baltar to send the Basestar in after the two Battlestars in order to end Adama for good. As a result, Galactica and Pegasus are fully isolated. The Basestar is briefly buffeted by asteroids and lightning strikes in the maelstrom as the shields and tactical displays go offline - for Adama and the Cains' gambit seems to be working. Soon, the two Battlestars swoop down and around from above to come up behind and fire off mega laser volleys to get Baltar's attention. Baltar's Basestar fires off a torpedo into the maelstrom which misses Galactica and Pegasus by a long shot as it disappears into the murk to swing back around to catch them off guard.

19.    The space dogfight over Earth rages on for a time. With most of the Union's attack craft destroyed, the Warriors and Roslin leave the fleet to see if they can aid the Galactica and Pegasus doing battle in the maelstrom. Galactica and Pegasus suddenly realize they are about to crash right into Baltar's Basestar now bearing down on a collision course with them! After an exchange of laser turret fire which leaves all ships heavily damaged, Six and Lucifer are killed by falling debris. Baltar declares he will avenge his nonhuman friends as he slinks away for a while. Cassiopeia arrives in engineering to see Gaius pass out from radiation as the hyperskip engines have gone offline again.

20.    Before jumping to hyperskip, the Pegasus jettisons garbage and spare parts to give the impression that Baltar has destroyed her. As the warriors and Roslin arrive in Core Command, Adama wonders where Baltar will be back from for his next attack. There is a very weird intelligence from Baltar, but not experience in fighting a three-dimensional space battle instead of a two-dimensional. Realizing Baltar's own crippling limitations and therefore folly, Adama orders Athena to drop them by ten thousand metrons (meters) and for Sheba to stand by with laser turrets and torpedo launchers. Baltar continues the hunt, waiting for when the Galactica reveals herself so he can destroy her.

21.    Like a mighty sea creature rising up from the depths, Galactica pulls up right behind Baltar's Basestar and opens up a barrage of laser turret and antimatter fusion torpedo fire. After one laser barrage and two torpedoes, the Basestar is crippled and drifting away - trailing plasma. Most of Baltar's crew has been killed in the process. With that, Adama orders Rigel to contact the Basestar and tell it to prepare to be boarded, as Bojay prepares a landing party to board it. Against the calls of Galactica, a marred and bloodied Baltar declares the game is not over until Adama is dead as he crawls over to begin powering up the Anastasis Device from a control console on his Basestar's bridge.

Act V

22.    Serina hugs Apollo, Boxey and Sheba as many in Core Command are feeling very good that they have truly defeated Baltar. Starbuck and Boomer then discover the science station of Core Command is scanning an unfamiliar energy source emanating from within Baltar's Basestar - it is the Anastasis Wave on a buildup to detonation. Once the Device is activated, there is no way to stop it or shut it down - so they cannot shuttle over to turn it off. Adama and Apollo watch with Boxey comforting a frightened Muffit as Athena takes the helm and begins attempting to maneuver the Galactica away. No one in Core Command notices that Serina has slipped away for the very last time.

23.    The Galactica begins futilely reversing course, attempting to limp away from the impending blast that will destroy her using only her sublight engines at maximum power. Serina hurries down to engineering, determined to make the ultimate sacrifice to save her family, as the Basestar starts collapsing in on itself behind them. Stopped by Cassiopeia, Serina karate chops the doctor in the neck, grabs Gaius' work gloves, and puts her hand to Cassiopeia's head uttering one word - "Remember". Despite the agonized pleas of Gaius and Cassiopeia, Serina enters and sets to work fixing the faster-than-light hyperskip engine system in an increasingly pluton-irradiated intermix chamber.

24.    A dying Baltar curses Adama and the Galactica limping away. Just when things look grimmest for our heroes, Serina has successfully realigned the solium crystals within the solium-tylium intermix reactor - enabling Athena to send the Galactica to faster-than-light hyperskip just in time. As the Galactica escapes, Baltar's Basestar erupts in a fiery explosion that starts a gravity well which draws in every bit tiny of matter of the surrounding storm in to start creating the planet. In Core Command, everyone is marveling at the creation of the Anastasis Planet out of the Gehenna Maelstrom when a call by Cassiopeia from engineering breaks the mood and informs them of Serina now dying.

25.    Our heroes rush down to engineering where Serina lies dying in the reactor chamber. Serina has just enough strength to express her love to Apollo, Boxey and Sheba just before she dies. A funeral is held centars (hours) later as Serina's body is gently placed in an empty antimatter fusion torpedo casing as a casket and then fired by Galactica into orbit around Planet Anastasis. Apollo and Sheba later come in to Adama's quarters to console and comfort a heartbroken Boxey, and tell him that they will always have Serina's love for them forever and ever. Sheba promises Apollo she'll be the best warrior mother to Boxey she can, and Boxey soon starts to warm up to his new stepmother.

26.    Galactica begins her return trip to Earth to acclimate the survivors of the Colonies with their kin on Earth. Things would seem to be looking hopeful for the human race, but there is a twinge of sadness as they leave a fallen sister warrior behind. A quote from the Ninth Lord of Kobol - Sagan, says that there are always possibilities; and if the Anastasis Planet is indeed life from death, they need to return to this place again. Cassiopeia says that Serina will always live on in their hearts - but those words may seem more prophetic than originally thought. Down on Anastasis, many of the newborn animals gather around a soft-landed antimatter torpedo casing shell - Serina's casket...

Epilogue (Preview Summary for Part II: Showdown at Armageddon**)**

27.    In the wake of the Battle of the Gehenna Maelstrom, Adama and his family's victory over Count Baltar is a hollow one. Apollo's wife Serina is now dead and Athena's girlfriend Cassiopeia is inexplicably being driven insane. With Adama, Tigh and Roslin currently trying to acclimate the survivors of the Colonies to life on Earth, a prominent member of the Council of Twelve - Sire Zarek - has commandeered a Viper to take it out into Union controlled space; that being planet Anastasis. A messenger from the almighty, benevolent Seraphs tells Boxey his mother has been reborn on Anastasis. Now Galactica must meet up with the Pegasus to battle a Cylon Zarek for Anastasis...

So I’m doing a rewatch with my wife and son, and we’ve reached The Eye of Jupiter.

The thing which makes this episode special is that the exterior “algae planet” scenes were filmed in my hometown, Kamloops, BC. They were filmed across the river from the community of Dallas which is on the east end of the city. It even features the Kamloops Hoodoos which is a local landmark (they were the actual temple).

Anyways, in the first scene on the planet, you are looking down a ravine…and if it weren’t for digitally altering the background to a lake you’d see Dallas. But in the scene where Tirol is walking up the hill and the camera is again looking down the ravine…in the background (on the left hand side of the screen) not only can you see the houses of Dallas, but you can see a car driving along Highway 1. 😆😆😆

It’s not something you’d probably notice if you weren’t looking for it…the houses do blend in a bit…and I suspect if it wasn’t an error the director probably figured that it would be too blurry for anyone to see.

At the time, anyway.

But still, it was pretty funny to see…

Newbie here. I’ve heard people recommend “the remake.” I started at S1E1 of the 2004-2009 show and was surprised to be greeted with a “Previously, on Battlestar Galactica…”

And then the show launched into what appeared to be the middle of a story with characters I feel as though I’m already supposed to know. Am I starting at the right spot?

Ok, so I’m currently rewatching for probably the 6th time, and during the episodes where the Hybrid was repeatedly jumping the ship (causing Laura to see herself dying etc etc), Giaus almost dying AND the whole unboxing of the Threes going on it’s got me thinking….was it technically possible for another consciousness/memories to be downloaded in to a fresh humanoid model?

Firstly, what’s to stop the memories of a an Eight being given the body of a Two during the rebirthing process? Is this a process that can ‘go wrong’ or be overridden? I feel like this is something Cavil would know about.

Secondly, I remember wondering the very first time I watched, if Laura’s visions of her death were leading up to the possibility of her consciousness being downloaded in to cylon body after she died, and, in some ‘special exception prophecy’ kind of way her then becoming the Final cylon (bear in mind we don’t know about Ellen or the background of the final five at at this time).

Lastly, HOW were the humanoid cylon consciousnesses created? I can appreciate the final five having the tech to create the actual models, the resurrection ships etc but how do you create the soul part? Was it something that came after, like body first, sentience second, nurtured in to its own little personality (probably over years of progression).

And I’m still confused about who gave the final five their consciousness?! Are we supposed to just accept this as part of the cycle, a ‘chicken and egg’ thing?

I have seen Caprica once, over 10 years ago, so apologies if the whole consciousness thing has already been answered.

Love all the Battlestar hints and nods in this Netflix movie!

Hi!

I wonder how many of you does have BSG merch? Such as ship models, t-shirts, badges, etc.

And I wonder how many BSG cosplayers are out there? I actually have never seen someone doing a BSG cosplay!

(If you have pics included, that would be so cool!)

So say we all!

All of this has happened before….

The entire revelation of the Final Five is genius and integral to the entire BSG narrative, but I know that for me, at least, one or two of those revealed were slightly underwhelming - still one of my favourite episodes!

So my question to you all is: If you could change/choose any (or all!) of the Final Five, who would you choose?

Go to Creationent.com for details and tickets. Hotel block does not require advance payment to book. Guest list is expected to be the same as last year, plus Callum Keith Rennie (Leoben) has officially joined the lineup!

Instead of Helo and Tyrol finding out, Adama happens to walk in around the same time they did, what does he do?

Happy Birthday to the OG Baltar

John Calicos December 10, 1928 - March 6, 2000

Season 2 ep 20 count vs Season 3 ep 4 count. I see some accounts say it's only 350-500 people but I had it counted at 8000? Anyone have an ep with the characters referencing the number.

Kara Thrace may or may not have been a Cylon and I did think it might be likely she was right up until she disappeared when Lee was talking with her.

But then I realized that it could be explained as a Cylon projection and that she was already somewhere else and only wanted to say goodbye to Lee and the others.

There is another metaphysical explanation that comes from a bigger question: If humans created Cylons and Cylons evolved to pass as humans, who created humans? Could the creator of humans be like humans as the Cylons are like humans? And could that creator have intervened with Kara?

Who was calling to Kara before her viper exploded? She said to Lee: "They're calling to me".

Her viper was brand new. Who made it? Cylons had the technology to make it.

The limited information available points to her being a Cylon so I still subscribe to the theory that she was a Cylon until more compelling evidence says otherwise.

In one episode Starbuck is ejecting on a planet where she finds the damaged Raider. In other episodes Viper pilots just die.

What about Battlestars? While playing BSG Deadlock, a lot of ships get destroyed in campaign too that would put a severe dent in human population, but that could be for gameplay reasons.

Or is it perhaps only Viper ships that have ejection pods?

Just watching “The Man in the High Castle” and was pleasantly surprised to see Saul Tigh make an appearance alongside number 2. Honestly this is the first time I’ve seen either of them acting outside of BSG but I really like Callum’s performance, although I’m not sure if this is just a one off appearance from michael