Battlestar Wiki:Original Series Article Development Project

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The Original Series Article Development Project is a long-winded title for a fairly large project to develop articles relating to the original Battlestar Galactica.

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Saga of a Star World

A transcript of the episode can be found here.

Relevant Articles	Article Creation
Saga of a Star World Battle of Carillon Battle of Cimtar	Evie the Chimp - the "actor" who portrayed Muffit II Back issue of TV guide with possible Evie info has been ordered.
Character Expansion	Fact Checking/Expansion/Pics

Verification

Articles that have been worked on, but need verification before crossing out as completed.

• Arts and Entertainment of the Twelve Colonies (TOS) - tucana singers, gambling
• Answaw - picture plus snippet (woman in elevator right after Starbuck is busted by Athena and Cassie in the chancery)
• Battlestar (TOS) - added pic
• Blonde Taurus - seems pertinent enough for an article of her own...
• Centurion (TOS) - cite execution?
• Cylons (TOS) - most of the mythology is layed out in this ep
  • Added bit about "most practical form" as well as the "bigger, stronger, interchangable parts"
• Defensive shields - pics added
• Fashions of the Twelve Colonies (TOS) - more screencaps and descriptions of carillon patrons, maybe add the council's dress (especially the more diverse opening council)
• Gold Cluster - to be awarded to Apollo, Starbuck, and Boomer by Sire Uri, the military's highest honor
• Government of the Twelve Colonies (TOS) - government, Quorum of Twelve (TOS), concept of referendum on Carillon (disarmament issue)
• Imperious Leader - one of the main eps for this character
• Languatron - I've got a screencap of this handy translator.
• Launch tubes (TOS) - where the Vipers are launched through
• Rapid transport trolly - we should probably note the trolly transporter that the pilots use to get to the launch bay.
• Society of the Twelve Colonies (TOS) - society, such as religion (Otori sect)
• Technology of the Twelve Colonies (TOS) - Languatron, etc.
• Tucana singers - article creation plus picture

Lost Planet of the Gods, Part I

Relevant Articles	Article Creation
Lost Planet of the Gods, Part I	Warriors Lounge - where the party's at (spelling debatable) Any thoughts on what this place is actually called? In part one it looks like there are some bunks one the upper level. I switched on subtitles hoping someone would mention it, but it doesn't get directly named in the parts that I've scanned through. I always thought it was the Warrior's bunk. On watching the episode, I'd tend to agree. When Boomer gets back, he puts his helmet on a rack in that room, where all the other helmets appear to be. However, when Tigh gets mad at Boomer for being drunk he threatens to send everyone back to quarters (which is like threatening to send a kid to his room... when he's already in his room). Regardless, there doesn't appear to be enough info to create an article off of right now, so I'm leaning towards dropping this for now.
Character Expansion	Fact Checking/Expansion/Pics
Imperious Leader - at the beginning Lucifer - first mission

Verification

• ale - swiped for the party
• Battle of Otarsis Quadrant - the battle resulting in the destruction of the listening post, so that Salik can land his team on the asteroid
• Council Security - noted that the blackshirts make an appearance here
• Cryogen tube - where you stick the sickies (until you can figure out how to heal them)
• Cylon listening post - needs a second verification
• decontamination room - looks good, but needs at least a second verification
• Epsilon Quadrant - quadrant where Lucy says the fleet's headed -- and since they're headed towards the void, Kobol's gotta be here too
• isoldin - something that the sickies get
• Otarsis Quadrant asteroid - an article about the unnamed asteroid where the disease comes from, since it's important to the ep
• Otarsis Quadrant - the area where the asteroid is located, judging from Lucifer's comments to Baltar
• Outer marker - where Jolly and Boomer are forced to hold position until cleared to land
• Pressure suit - complete with pic
• Probe 1 - should we even bother with a pic?
  • I'd lean against it. It's kind of like Bootlegger 137. Maybe just classify it a "terminology" article?
• Probe 2 - same as Probe 1
• throne room - the area from where Baltar and the Imperious Leader command, at least in the beginning of the series

Lost Planet of the Gods, Part II

Relevant Articles	Article Creation
Lost Planet of the Gods, Part II
Character Expansion	Fact Checking/Expansion/Pics
	seal: a description of the ceremony Could Talk:Seal be used as a start?

Verification

• Adama's Medallion: noted its use in the marriage ceremony
• Intercept 1, Intercept 2, and Intercept 3

War of the Gods

• Iblis' ship - Picture and article done. Verification needed.

Fire in Space

• Uniforms (TOS) - Need to add the fire clothing and space suits depicted in this ep.
• Galactica (TOS) - We can use some of the info in this episode to expand a bit on the layout.

General

We should probably do a series of articles similar to the RDM "Twelve Colonies" series that Peter started. Here's an idea:

• Fashions of the Twelve Colonies (TOS) - Covers the clothing and other "bling bling", since it's pretty unique.
• Arts and Entertainment of the Twelve Colonies (TOS) - Good place for triad, pyramid, and minor games we see in the series (in particular this would be a great place for those games we see in "Fire in Space")
• Technology of the Twelve Colonies (TOS) - tech and all that
• Government of the Twelve Colonies (TOS) - government, Quorum of Twelve (TOS), and all that jazz
• Society of the Twelve Colonies (TOS) - society, such as religion
• Life Sciences of the Twelve Colonies (TOS) - Covers the medical and psychological aspects of the Colonies, in progress

Additionally...

• List of Warriors - analog to List of pilots
• Unnamed Battlestar Galactica personnel (TOS) - analog to Unnamed Battlestar Galactica personnel

Pictures needed for...

• Blue Squadron
• Military Ranks (TOS) - could use some color