A new painting I have been working on, with the Battlestar Pegasus as opposed to the Galactica in my last painting

Would killing a cylon in a Faraday cage preventing them to upload their memory into a new body?

Sorry if this question has been asked before, but I have always wondered this.

In the second BSG series the Cylons compromise the 'Command Navigation Program' and use it to shut down ships and fighters. Well many people including fanfic writers have stated that this was a hack that allowed them to do this. However I always thought it was different. The CNP was created to remote control ships like fighters with dead pilots. So if say during a battle the pilot is shot up and still on full power because say the pilots body is pushing on the power still.. then the main ship can over ride it and bring it to a stop. Thus saving and repairing the fighter and not wasting ships.

Kind of like what the 'Prefix Code' was on Starfleet. Only ships with that ships code could control it to power down or come to an area remotely. I always assumed that the Cylons added a code into the main CNP to shut down the entire ship rather rather then take control of it. So it was not a hack more of a placing a simple code that would get past the virus checking of the Fleets computers.

Some though seem to think its a virus that delivers a software package to the target ship. And to me that is nuts as the ship would not need a compromised CNP program if the Cylons were sending a virus to the ships. It should just be a command activation code. I assumed that the newer Vipers that were on Galactica during the attack were newly delivered ships from the factory and had it installed. While the older ones never had it and maybe could not support it with their older operation system.

So was it a command code to disable, or a virus to destroy the networks?

Such a great moment with Adama Jr and Adama Sr before the start of Baltars trial

It's a failing of military men to hide their feelings.

If Adama Sr had just explained to his son the importance of the trial to the survival of the species as a whole he may have acted mush differently.

And I get that there is a point to be made that allowing a trial for a man like baltar (who literally caused the death of 99.9% of the human race) is a moral and just thing to do, and should be done

But the failure of Adama as a father caused a lot of issues in this trial arc.

Just asking as I am very new to the 2003 verse, and I want to know which version of the first two seasons to purchase so that I don’t miss any important episodes at all.

I'm thinking of a setting for the Traveller Role Playing Game that is based on the 2003 Battlestar Galactica series. In the near future an astronaut crew lands on the Moon and in the shadow of a crater near the Lunar South Pole, they find a raptor. The raptor has been well preserved over the last 150,000 years, and it has an FTL drive! Inside the raptor, they find the remains of a human, or is it a cylon? Hard to tell.

Another mission is launched to the Moon, this is sometime in the early 2030s, a cargo Starship lands next to the crater, the raptor is lifted out of the crater using a crane, it is hauled inside the SpaceX Starship, the Starship is refueled, and then lifts off the Moon's surface heading to Earth. The Starship is captured by the Mechazilla arms of the launch pad.

The raptor is slowly lowered to the landing pad, a truck hauls it to the research center. Engineers and scientists slowly disassemble the vehicle to find out how it works, the circuit boards and chips are similar to Earth technology at this time. Scientists study the FTL drive, and come up with a theory on how it works. SpaceX builds a working prototype of the FTL drive, equip a Starship with it, and they launch it into space. The first ship disappears and is never seen again. A second ship is launched, it jumps to Mars and then jumps back. A third mission is launched, using the FTL drive to jump a crew to Mars. An outpost is set up.

SpaceX has more ambitious plans, a planet was recently detected in the Alpha Centauri System orbiting the larger star within the habitable zone. A Starship is launched, makes the jump to that system, the planet is not only Earthlike, it is in fact Earth, the original Earth. The planet has a complex ecology, there are forests, it has oceans. Some animals were spotted on satellite images, and there is a rather large artificial object orbiting this planet, it is the Battlestar Galactica.

The leaders of SpaceX are excited, they found another Earth and an alien spaceship in orbit, they would like to send a human crew to the surface of that planet. They sent a lander and a rover, its wheels got stuck in a swamp after exploring a clearing and entering a nearby forest. The types of trees in the forest were familiar, some oaks and elms, they spotted a rabbit, caught a glimpse of a sabertoothed cat, known to be extinct on Earth. How did it get here? An attempt was made to contact the enormous alien spaceship, but no response was received, upon closer inspection the ship has been orbiting this planet for a very long time, its surface is pocked by micrometeor craters, counting the craters has given an estimate of how long this ship was here, about 125,000 to 145,000 years is the estimate. Astronauts boarded the ship rather cautiously. There are some remains of humans, and robots of some kind, the environment is a vacuum inside the ship, but it appears at some point there was an atmosphere inside as the human remains were reduced to skeletons. One thing they noticed about the skeletons, they seemed to come in standard sizes, most peculiar.

Approaching the end of my rewatch and I decided to ask and see how people first found out about the show. For me, it happened twice. First, in 2004. It was summer and I spent 3 weeks in Berlin when I was there I saw some billboards of Lee and Kara standing in front of a horde of Centurions. I didn’t think much of it at the time and my host mother’s TV was kaputt anyway.

Fast forward 2 years, I’m in Hainan, PRC. Jet lag made me stay up late the whole trip so I was flipping through the channels to see what was on. I think it was one of the Star channels, where I stumbled upon a Season 1 marathon, specifically Starbuck interrogating Leoben. Fell in love with the show and started to see how I could watch it when I got home.

Now, Galactica was never officially released, afaik, where I live, so I had to use…other means to watch it. Every week I’d download a dubbed episode, 400 mbs and each. My internet was 256 kbps back then so I had to leave it to download overnight and watch the next day after uni. How far have we come.

Unlike many of the popular shows of that decade though, I find it’s best to marathon it than watch week by week, as the story feels more consistent. Though it do admit the forum discussions were fun back then.

So how did you first find out about Galactica?

I just rewatched all 4 seasons after almost 2 decades. I was maybe too young to understand it all. Surprisingly i found out that i've never seen the last season of it. I remembered i downloaded only 3 seasons and did not know about the last one existed.

What a fraking good serie this is. My hero is Helo because he's doing everything right from start till end. And Colonel Saul is my favorite in this series. With an eye patch make him even better. Love it when he looked amazed or angry you can see his eye being eing very intense.

I like Adama and the president less. I feel like those two oldies stepping on the brakes when it's time to go to the next level.

But i understand writers want to put extreme different characters in this show to represent humanity.

Too bad number 3 ended early. I would love to see Xena warriors princes more with less clothes on. See looked truly amazing.

Gaius Balter was annoying from start till end. But i know why they put him there. Every series needs a funny or annoying character.

The only thing i don't understand is Kara's role exactly, especially when and how she returned from the dead.

Edit: I don't say Gaius should not be on the show. He represents humanity selfish being. He just mess things up and i had a hard time liking him because of that. But with Baltar, the story gets some funny times throughout this dark serie about humanity survival and it's fleet being reduced by half by the end. I will find time again to rewatch the series, in a decade from now i think.

Basically title. My question is twofold. Do you have recommendations for fics written from Cylon side? Mainly the ones where Cylons are not antagonists are welcomed, but I will not turn down anything.

The second fold - currently I'm writing fanfic centered around Cylons in positive note (mind you, it's not public yet and will not be for some time). Reversing the roles by a bit. Is there something you would like to see in story? I already have my own ideas and inspirations developed and written, but I'm curious about how other people view this.

I'm rewatching the show for the first time in years, and some things aren't sitting right with me, particularly at the end of Season 2. Am I wrong in thinking that taking approximately 20 Raptors and going back to Captica was a terrible decision, from a military logistics POV?

I understand the concept of "no soldier left behind" and doing everything in your power to help a fallen buddy. But Anders and co. weren't military—they were just abandoned civilians that happened to bump into Starbuck. And surely if they survived the attack, thousands (or hundreds of thousands? or millions?) of other civilians survived too.

So am I crazy to think that they should have either planned a large-scale evacuation of as many people on the planet as possible (which would presumably include the Battlestars and other large vessels in the fleet), or gone the Admiral Cain route of returning to and reclaiming Caprica from the Cylons? But their ultimate decision—send a bunch of Raptors and troops to try to save a small group which results in netting hardly any new humans and losing ships—was the dumbest decision they could have made?

(And I understand that this was done for storytelling purposes; I just wish the writing had been a little tighter on these issues.)

In latter-half of S4, pre-surgery super-memory-time Anders mentions that they "reinvented" resurrection tech. Knowing the end was coming soon.

1. How do you think in your head canon they knew about the end coming? What aspect of their past lives made them privy? Just an instinct of seeing how things were shaping up? Or someone being privy to some top secret or enemy info?
2. Did the 13th tribe originally invent the resurrection tech on Kobol and take it with them? Did they invent it later on Earth 1 but then try to outlaw it under a code of morals that shifted later, leading to the civil war and nukes?

I have a head canon story, but I don't know if it's allowed here (Mods, can you let me know if it's ok to write it in a post?)

So, I’m rewatching after almost 20 years. This time in English, with bonus materials and I’m appalled by some characters and their hypocrisy.

First, Gaeta. He, for a long time, is portrayed as a man of principle and honor. But now, after S4E12 and Face of the Enemy, I can’t help but exclaim “the audacity” at the fact he had the nerve to call Baltar a traitor. Yes, Baltar unknowingly caused the genocide but Gaeta doesn’t know that. His hatred is pointed at Baltar’s actions on NC, where the man’s only crime was “bowing to the inevitable”. There really was nothing Baltar could do. The fleet gone, the people defenseless. He had to surrender or face extinction. And when he signed the execution list he had a gun pointed at his head. And besides all this, Baltar, from his guilt, by his own choice and at times by coincidence of self interest with the interest of humanity or Cylon, went a path of redemption. Gaeta, however, after making a similar mistake, and learning of it, went on a guilt-driven racist vendetta that was so petty it makes him look like a pissed-off teen.

Next, Starbuck. When she had her visions of earth, she expected everyone to believe her. Yet when the Final 5 came to her with their hunch, she was so very much reluctant to believe them, until she wasn’t.

Zarek too is a hypocrite, preaching freedom and democracy but only when it suits his own lust for power. Roslin expected to be heard when she had her visions but when Starbuck has hers she immediately dismisses them and vehemently refuses to even listen.

I’m sure I can find more examples. But it is rare that I find people who lie cheat and steal their way through things end up doing more good than these moralist preachy hypocrites. Kat stole someone’s name but she was a hell of a pilot and gave her life for the greater good. Baltar I already covered. Adama had to make some tough choices but they mostly paid off. Athena endured hell to become the woman she ended up as. Lee betrayed his father and his oath multiple times and ended up saving the human race.

The takeaway, I guess, is you judge people on what they bring to the bigger picture. If their lies save people, what good is the truth of a hypocrite?

Update: The punishment mutineers received was nowhere near enough. They deserve kneecapping, torture, and to suffer an eternity of pain before they die a slow painful death. Fuck them all.

In caprica season S01E16 the greystones discuss the shooting of the GDD guy who was in contact with Amanda. Apparently a certain Cottle was the practitioner who saved that guy's ass.

You think it was the same Cottle?

(Sry for that bad image I was to lazy for screenshots)

The Sharon that married Helo and sided with the fleet.

Circa "The Woman King"

So I saw 10 years ago this came up... So I'm sorry to rehash old stuff. I found a DVD boxed set that says 4 seasons and two movies, also looks like it has the extended Razor, and other extended episodes. I'm assuming the two movies would the The Plan and the miniseries? I don't think it was mentioned in the post ten years ago.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0BBN3MH31/ref=ox_sc_act_image_1?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1

Then there's the silver box Blu-ray. I'm not sure if resolution or sizing is better, or if there's any content difference, or if it's just bonus content. That one is 16 dollars more, and the produce description isn't telling me about the miniseries, or season 4. Just 4.5 maybe just an oversight. I think it's the one this sub said to buy 10 years ago.

https://www.amazon.com/Battlestar-Galactica-Edward-James-Olmos/dp/B0036EH3U2/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?crid=RPIG3BK37VTB&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9._tyXSBUZnVNzSWel4xgQ3N-F8Uz4Qfg6BaMvJwo2A8WK1ylxf1WYtaUDqmuhQBwdpGmP6YVwXW7mPJLnmpJ69o-gjy3sAEtCCjrcMKrGhnKr5UQ7PKYdZcZy4YP_2HGoNoKhbxSY9y6Hm4xkv5Rq2GkqjRElpcVgN6vcPvnxjTOJHaKOcw9otJNcUCN6cNWE4LiFrc8OOPEOh8RJddLxLQ.0aj39X4x3WdEh2-MBc1xXEKbbDsOaS1hO4GASeIkXYU&dib_tag=se&keywords=battlestar+galactica+complete+series&qid=1713659598&sprefix=battlstar%2Caps%2C107&sr=8-2

And then there's this set that's 5 bucks more than the DVD, thebdescription is basically missing, it's one less disk. This may have been the one this sub said not to buy 10 years ago.

https://www.amazon.com/Battlestar-Galactica-Edward-James-Olmos/dp/B09BXZ3DL2/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?crid=3FZ5G3SS35MFP&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9._tyXSBUZnVNzSWel4xgQ3N-F8Uz4Qfg6BaMvJwo2A8WK1ylxf1WYtaUDqmuhQBwdpGmP6YVwXW7mPJLnmpJ69o-gjy3sAEtCCjrcMKrGhnKr5UQ7PKYdZcZy4YP_2HGoNoKhbxSY9y6Hm4xkv5Rq2GkqjRElpcVgN6vcPvnxjTOJHaKOcw9otJNcUCN6cNWE4LiFrc8OOPEOh8RJddLxLQ.0aj39X4x3WdEh2-MBc1xXEKbbDsOaS1hO4GASeIkXYU&dib_tag=se&keywords=battlestar+galactica+complete+series&qid=1713661292&sprefix=%2Caps%2C131&sr=8-3

Edit: one of the links was wrong.

I just don't get it. Rewatching it over and over. I guess the pidgeon is symbolism for Starbuck? But how, what? I don't. It's too deep for me.

And another thing that annoys me is the Anders 'epilogue' with the perfect shot. How is sending the fleet into the sun the perfect shot? How is it perfection?

Idk, someone smarter than me break down the finale for me. The Adama and Roslin parts are pretty straight forward but the Starbuck/Apollo parts are literally either too tryhard psued or I'm too dumb to appreciate it.

When the rebel Cylons and Colonial fleet find “earth”, they discover it is entirely nuked and uninhabitable, except for breathable air.

D’anna, the last of the 3’s as far as we know, stays behind to “die with her ancestors and reflect” when the fleet decides to pull out and leave.

How long do you think she lasted before succumbing to thirst/starvation or to insanity from isolation? Cylon skinjob models obviously are far stronger and don’t get as hungry or thirsty as easily as humans do, so likely she’d have lasted a while. At least longer than a human could.

2-3 weeks? Six months? Only a couple days?

Hi all,

I'm nearly done watching Stargate and my next series is going to be BSG. I've got the 2004 series and movies all ready for me on Blu-ray. However, my dad loved the original series as a kid and I'd like to check it out to some degree first so I can appreciate what the 2004 series was building on.

I've got the Definitive Collection set for 1978/1980 so that I could watch the full frame versions. I don't necessarily want to watch every single episode, especially not from 1980 as I've heard it's pretty much terrible.

I have a few questions:

1. If you had to pick 8-12 essential episodes/arcs from the original series and 2-3 from 1980, what would they be?
2. I have last year's 4K UHD transfer of the original movie. Is this just the first three episodes of the original series combined, or is the film set prior to the series in its entirety?

I've searched both on this sub and on Google a fair amount in an attempt to find answers to these questions but am not finding helpful answers. There's a ton of watch suggestions for the 2004 series but not the original. If I am just blind and this has already been asked and answered 50 million times, please just direct me to the right post or webpage. Thanks!

Gotten mixed results when searching online and I don't seem to remember this scene happening and can't find it when looking.

I ordered this about a week ago and found it in my mailbox this morning. I literally just finished rewatching BSG last night!