Battlestar Galactica getting rebooted (again) for NBS's streaming service

[Ora Tzo]

I have a cheesy and cringe worthy idea for a BSG type show.

I suppose BSG1980 could be made into a more serious premise.

Its the near future in the long lost colony of Terra (Vaguely resembles our real Earth).
Its rife with it's own problems, but what it didn't count on was the Battlestar Galactica jumping into its orbit along with a Cylon Basestar.
With some Terran assistance it is destroyed, but that's only the start of the problems.

Far away the second colonial war is in full swing, and the colonials can't spare resources to deal with the lost colony given how backward it is, but the Cylons could easily send a few forces their way.
The Galactica is faced with a dilemma attempt to defend Terra despite being technologically behind or cut its losses and return to the colonies.

[Spoiler: Season 1 ends with Terra being glassed and the Galactica goes off after an alien signal.]

 

[The Wormhole]

It's still vague as to what this new BSG show is supposed to be, the tweet states that it will be a new story WITHIN THE MYTHOLOGY this DOES NOT mean it will take place within the RDM/2004 continuity or even the original for that matter.

I have a cheesy and cringe worthy idea for a BSG type show. I call it Battlestar Galactica 1990 it's a story that takes place aboard an Artemis class Battlestar during the first Cylon war of the nuBSG timeline. The Artemis and a large Cylon mothership hit a timewarp and end up around the Earth in the mid 90's! It's up to the crew to elude the Cylons, evade detection by the Earth authorities, and advance their civilization to the point where they can stand up to the Cylon threat with the help of their allies a parody of mid-90's celebrities! So rev up your flying motorcycles and set phasers to cringe! lol

Shut up and take my money!

I suppose BSG1980 could be made into a more serious premise.

Didn't they already try that with the comics several years back?

 

[KennyB]

Better have flying motorcycles or I am OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[BillJ]

I like Battlestar Galactica, but not enough to subscribe to yet another streaming service.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

I like Battlestar Galactica, but not enough to subscribe to yet another streaming service.

I loved all BSG iterations, but am in the same boat. I have Hulu, and that's it. I had Prime for The Grand Tour, but it wasn't really entertaining enough to keep that service. I want to see the upcoming Middle Earth series, but don't wan't Netflix.

 

[BillJ]

I loved all BSG iterations, but am in the same boat. I have Hulu, and that's it. I had Prime for The Grand Tour, but it wasn't really entertaining enough to keep that service. I want to see the upcoming Middle Earth series, but don't wan't Netflix.

I’ve got Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, YouTube Red and CBS All-Access. Big family with lots of interests.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

I’ve got Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, YouTube Red and CBS All-Access. Big family with lots of interests.

Absolutely cool. I'm one person who got rid of DISH because the price kept creeping up for limited use. Now I might not mind adding one more streaming service, but it would be hard to decide which one. Each one has one or two shows I'd love to watch first-run.

I guess I should do some research and see what other shows each one has.

 

[137th Gebirg]

Me too. I have DISH but I'm thinking about cutting the cable. It's a huge slice of PITA bread to maintain all those subscriptions, but I still think it totals less than the $100+ DISH service. Just need to make sure I find something that I can get all my local stations on.

 

[Noname Given]

Seriously, what's the point doing this so soon?

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/l...ot-sam-esmail-works-at-nbcus-streamer-1239018

What? 10 years after the finale RDMs adaptation is too soon? (ST:TMP would lile a word with you. )

 

[137th Gebirg]

Hard to believe it's been that long. 16 years if you start the clock at the miniseries pilot.

 

[Marc]

What? 10 years after the finale RDMs adaptation is too soon? (ST:TMP would lile a word with you. )

Even less when you factor that TMP came out of Phase II which was cira 1977 if not a bit earlier.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Even less when you factor that TMP came out of Phase II which was cira 1977 if not a bit earlier.

Gene started pushing The God Thing in 1975 IIRC, and TAS was in 1973.

 

[Noname Given]

Gene started pushing The God Thing in 1975 IIRC, and TAS was in 1973.

TAS was a continuation moreso than ST:TMP. TMP was (IMO) a soft reboot of sorts - especially with the Klingon redesign.

And WRT "Star Trek" in general, it's interesting when you consider the fact that since the original series cancellation; there never been more than 4 years between some sort of Star Trek related film or TV project:

TAS - 1973 - 1975

ST: TMP: 1979
STII: TWoK: 1982
STIII: TSFS: 1984
STIV: TVH: 1986

ST: TNG: 1987-1994

STV: TFF: 1989
STVI: TUC: 1991
STVII: GEN: 1994
STVIII: FC: 1996
STIX: INS: 1998
ST:X: NEM: 2002

ST: DS9: 1993 - 1999
ST: VOY: 1995 - 2001
ST: ENT: 2001 - 2005

ST2009: 2009
STID: 2013
STB: 2016

ST: D 2017 - Current (IE still going)
ST: Short Treks: 2018 - Current (IE still going)

and 4 other announced ST series (2 animated and 2 more live action).

Then there's been all the hardcover and paperback books, plus various comic book series (Past and Present).

It makes me wonder how some certain high profile fan film makers claim they've been the only thing that's "Kept Trek Alive!" when in fact, if you look at just the various TV series and Film projects (including pre-production time) - Star trek has never really been "Dead".

 

[kirk55555]

All I want to know is, will the answer to every question in this series also end up being "God did it?" Seriously, even as someone who only finished NuBSG through hate watching (I stopped being even remotely invested in the show during that shitty stay on the planet, which I think was Season 2ish), even I was pissed off by that ending.

I can't imagine a reboot or spinoff or whatever of BSG will be especially compelling at this point, but more sci Fi being made is a good thing, I guess.

 

[JD]

No, I require far, far weirder in terms of hard SF, because the show started it with the notion of an entity so powerful that it can be seen as God running cycles (but then again, maybe not, so what are we talking about in that case?), or that everything one might normally handwave as a fairy tale, a metaphor, must actually have had ties to our Earth a stated number of years ago (the show just couldn’t leave that open-ended), using a specific mechanism the writers found somewhere and thought it was cool, even though it raises far more questions than it answers. Once you’ve introduced such power and control, recreating human evolution through (modified) 2000s seems trivial by comparison: the only question is how much to establish in an original manner and how much to leave to speculation.

I never really got the impression that God was specifically running the cycles, I had always thought it was just the nature of the universe.

I loved all BSG iterations, but am in the same boat. I have Hulu, and that's it. I had Prime for The Grand Tour, but it wasn't really entertaining enough to keep that service. I want to see the upcoming Middle Earth series, but don't wan't Netflix.

The Lord of the Rings series is going to be on Amazon Prime, not Netflix.

I’ve got Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, YouTube Red and CBS All-Access. Big family with lots of interests.

I've got Amazon Prime, Netflix, Hulu, CBS All Access, and I'm hoping to get Disney+ once it starts. If I had more money I'd also get DC Universe+, HBOMax, and Peacock, but with where my finances are at the moment, even adding D+ is kind of pushing it.

 

[BillJ]

I've got Amazon Prime, Netflix, Hulu, CBS All Access, and I'm hoping to get Disney+ once it starts.

Knew I was missing one. Already know my wife is subscribing when it starts.

 

[JD]

Oh, I forgot one, we also get BritBox through Amazon Channels. Since we do it through Amazon, I always forget about it.

 

[StarMan]

IMO, "within the mythology" does not equal in the NuBSG universe.

 

[BillJ]

IMO, "within the mythology" does not equal in the NuBSG universe.

Probably means "we'll keep the broad strokes of the concept" and do whatever the fuck we want with the details. Much like Discovery.

 

[Mr Awe]

In the first season alone we had an episode where Baltar's luck changes just because he rejects God, resulting in his "Head Six" abandoning him and things don't turn right until he admits he was wrong and turns to God, resulting in "Head Six" returning to him. In light of stuff like that, the finale's assertion that everything was the work of God is hardly out of left field.

Besides, Ron Moore (who is himself an atheist) has said the religious stuff in BSG were very much a reaction to Star Trek's strict policies that everything needed a rational explanation. So with that mentality in mind, there was never a reason to expect BSG to be hard science at all.

I haven't rewatched Moore's BSG since it finished. But, I'm sure you're correct about seeing where it was going earlier on.

However, and this is just a matter of my personal preference, but I don't want to watch a series where god drives events towards a conclusion. That's not my cup of tea. So, knowing that's where things are heading doesn't make it more palatable for me. I do want there to be rational explanations for events.

I'm interested in the next iteration of BSG, but hope it downplays the religious stuff--at least in terms of driving the eventual outcome.