Editing Talk:The Hand of God (TOS)/Archive 1 (section)

== Logical deduction concerning the location of the star system encountered in this episode ==

I have slightly modified the Analysis section of this article. Note that the last Galactica TOS and first Galactica 1980 episodes actually establish some fairly rigid constraints on the location of the Colonial fleet in those episodes...at least if faster-than-light propulsion is not used! In particular, we know that the Apollo 11 TV signals left Earth in July 1969 and are intercepted by the Galactica sometime before 1980. So if "the Hand of God" takes place in e.g. 1979 they must be ten light-years from Earth at that point, which leaves just a single year for the final dash to our solar system. Clearly, this won't work unless the Colonial fleet has FTL (=faster than light) capability. The other extreme would be if the signal is detected as early as 1970 while still within one light year from Earth, but the problem is there are no other star systems in the vicinity. The only scenario that works seems to be Alpha Centauri 4.3 light years from Earth. In this case the signal is detected on the far side of the Alpha Centauri system no later than mid-1974, and the final <5 light year journey to Earth takes 5-6 years at most (at 5.9 light years even [[w:Barnard's Star|Barnard's Star]] is too far away from Earth). This would also mean that [[Doctor Zee]] was born on a planet in the Alpha Centuri system 5-6 Earth years prior to Galactica 1980 assuming [[The Hand of God]] and [[The Return of Starbuck]] episodes are roughly contemporary. Finally, Kobol and the Twelve Colonies are located at most approx. 20 light years from our solar system assuming FTL is not used . [[User:AdmiralMarcus|AdmiralMarcus]] 20:57, 18 August 2009 (UTC)