BATTLESTAR GALACTICA (2003) - Ship Of The Week #7 1/1/2015

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA​

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BATTLESTAR GALACTICA​

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“They need to start having babies…”​

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[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oShM7Bcml0w[/yt]​

 

Ah, I love the Bucket! She really was as much a character as any of the others on the show.

 

I always wondered what was up with the missing armor. (I have never seen Blood & Chrome - was she seen with full armor in that series?)

 

^^^Yes. The image at the top was taken from B&C. It shows Galactica fully armored and with all her guns.

 

Didn't the Cylon plan basically amount to "kill all humans." Shame it's execution was somewhat lacking if only that had waited say 24hours.

 

Then there wouldn't have been a series.

But yeah, the plan was to kill all the humans and take over the 12 worlds.

 

I loved the Adama Maneuver.

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evodPpqb9H4[/yt]

Its the most epic strategic space battle ever seen on TV.

 

A hardy warship. The Battlestars remind me of WW2 Battleships. The Cylon Basestars of the reimagined series reminded me of Aircraft Carriers for some reason.

 

Is this the only battlestar called Galactica in the reimagined series? For some reason I thought nuBSG's backstory contained a previous Galactica which was more along the lines of the TOS version. Or am I way off base, as usual?

 

I believe there was a TOS-style battlestar in the hangar deck museum of the Galactica, along with a TOS basestar.

 

Battlestars are carriers. Most of their guns are purely for defense, while their main offensive weapons are their Vipers and Raptors. That makes them carriers.

Not surprising. They had TOS Centurions all over the place. They had to show a rationale for it...

 

and yet the later Battlestars such as the Pegasus did rely on computer networks and integrations.

And looking at CIC in Blood & Chrome I still wonder whether the downgrading of the technolodgy came later - after the construction of the Galatica.

 

Loved, loved, loved this series. I was secretly hoping Admiral Cain was the final cylon. I loved to hate her in that role.

 

So oneof the final five gets killed by a Six?

I'm sure Cavill wouldn't have minded

 

Stop wondering. I got the information from Battlestar Wiki and there's plenty of evidence in canon to support it.

First, the fact that Pegasus had a networked system is irrelevant to the question of whether Galactic had one. Pegasus was constructed during the postwar period, a time when there was no immediate threat of Cylon network infiltration and the Colonials had time to develop a more hack-proof system, which is what they did. How do we know? Because if they hadn't, the Cylons wouldn't have needed Gaius Baltar's help to repeat their previous success.

Second, look at what happens to Colonial equipment when a Cylon hack is successful. It shuts down, completely, as we saw in the mini and The Plan. Then the Cylons swoop in and disintegrate it. Why is that important?

Look at Operation Raptor Talon (depicted in Razor). 3 battlestars, one of them Galactica. We know the Cylons wouldn't hesitate to hack any vulnerable enemy system, so if Galactica had a networked system in that battle she would have been shut down and destroyed, forty years before the events of the mini (which also would have happened forty years sooner, and we wouldn't have a series.)

And the Model 5 tour guide in the mini pretty much came out and said Galactica wasn't built with networked systems...

I don't see what there is to wonder about.

 

Meh. I much preferred the original (both ship and series).

 

"Awesome". Looks like a chunk of military hardware that means business and occasionally needs maintenance.

I think I prefer the Beast to the Bucket, though.

 

Agreed.