Question About A Battlestar: Galactica Episode Description

[Samuel]

I was thumbing through the weekly tv section of the Sunday paper and there was a the part that had the programming entries and it had

"Battlestar: Galactica- A Russian satellite targets the Galactica"

Now I know that no original Battlestar: Galactica had an episode remotely like that. It sounds like a Galactica: 1980 episode but I'm also pretty sure that was never the plot of any of that series episodes as well.

Was that the plot of any episode of the nuBattlestar: Galactica series?

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Was that the plot of any episode of the nuBattlestar: Galactica series?

No.

Spoiler: nuBSG

Since nuBSG takes place 150,000 years before Russia ever existed, it would be quite unlikely, at any rate.

AFAIK, no episode of any iteration of BSG (original, G1980, or nuBSG) directly or indirectly involved the Russians.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

According to this episode guide at Microsoft Store, it's "Spaceball," the sixth episode of Battlestar Galactica: 1980, although that doesn't match the Wikipedia description.

 

[Samuel]

According to this episode guide at Microsoft Store, it's "Spaceball," the sixth episode of Battlestar Galactica: 1980, although that doesn't match the Wikipedia description.

Agreed. That does appear to be the case. A Russian military satellite was apparently supposed to be targeting the disabled Viper of Troy & Dillon's while they were adrift.

Ironically that would've been far, far, far better than the episode as it unfolded.

 

[137th Gebirg]

Honestly it sounds more like the TOS "Greetings From Earth"/"Baltar's Escape"/"Experiment in Terra" trilogy of episodes where the Eastern Alliance (analogs of East Germany - not quite Space Nazis, but more like Space Communists, hence the "Russia" reference) launched a nuclear attack on the Western Coalition (NATO) and intervened by Galactica by covering the entire planet (Terra) in a force field to destroy the missiles on reentry. Basically, someone was fast-forwarding through the footage to get a really generalized summary of the episode and moved on quickly to the next thing. I don't think the Russins were mentioned more than once in G1980, when Dillon was commenting about wanting to be an envoy to the Soviet Union because he "liked unions".