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
Character Expansion	Fact Checking/Expansion/Pics
	Arts and Entertainment of the Twelve Colonies (TOS) - tucana singers, gambling Battlestar (TOS) - particularly confirming the battlestar names Centurion (TOS) - cite execution? 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) Launch tubes (TOS) - where the Vipers are launched through

Verification

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

• Answaw - picture plus snippet (woman in elevator right after Starbuck is busted by Athena and Cassie in the chancery)
• Base ship - used by Starbuck to describe Galactica, also used interchangeably with Basestar (TOS) (add to terminology?)
• Blonde Taurus - seems pertinent enough for an article of her own...
• Caprica Presidium - should there be a separate Caprica Presidium article, or should it go under Presidium? (This is where Serina reports from initially).
• 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"
• Cylon Mine - fact checking, better cites?
  • Did some cleanup. The only thing I'm concerned on is the apparent implication that the mine was enough to destroy a battlestar.
• Defensive shields - pics added
• Gold Cluster - to be awarded to Apollo, Starbuck, and Boomer by Sire Uri, the military's highest honor
• Hasari - mythology check, exclude or separate video game content?
  • Ran through the article and tried to better segregate the content. I think having one article, with the video game information, is more prudent than having a two articles.
• Ila - fact checking
  • Fact checking concluded. Everything is A O.K.
• Imperious Leader - one of the main eps for this character
• Languatron - I've got a screencap of this handy translator.
• Launch bay - where the choochoo goes to...
  • Need a screenshot of this area
• List of Deleted Scenes (TOS) - Started. However, I can't add any more to it since my DVD keeps on freezing up due to possible damage.
• Peanuts - possibly the name of the dog who briefly portrayed the original daggit, Muffit
• Rapid transport trolly - we should probably note the trolly transporter that the pilots use to get to the launch bay.
• The Alliance - looks ok.
• The Twelve Colonies (TOS) - note the taurus woman
• Thousand-Yahren War - fact checking, again a big mythology ep
  • Has been rewritten. Please post thoughts on talk page.
• Tucan - update to point to Tucana singers (once it exists)
  • Question: Was Tucan even mentioned as a planet?
    • I'll dig into this more. My initial reaction was the same as yours, but when I was about to strike out the page I found some references online that make it seem like it may have been in the source material (writer/script guide, etc.) and not from onscreen.
      • The Writer's Guide has the name "Tucanas" and a brief description of them. No mention on "Tucana" as a planet though. For now, it's probably best to direct Tucan to Tucanas.
      • In addition, the reference may come from "Galactica Stuff: A Colonial's Guide to the Galaxy", by Sharon Monroe, which appears to have been more fan written if anything else.

• Tucana singers - article creation plus picture

Lost Planet of the Gods, Part I

Relevant Articles	Article Creation
Lost Planet of the Gods, Part I	Pressure suit - complete with pic Galactica security - two security officers attempt to search for stolen victuals before being thwarted by Colonel Tigh; question is though, is this worthy of an article, or merely a note in Council Security, since the uniforms are essentially the same? 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 Command chamber - the area from where Baltar and the Imperious Leader command, at least in the beginning of the series Warriors Lounge - where the party's at (spelling debatable)
Character Expansion	Fact Checking/Expansion/Pics
Imperious Leader - at the beginning Lucifer - first mission	Probe 1 - should we even bother with a pic? Probe 2 - same as Probe 1 Cylon listening post - needs a second verification

Verification

• Cryogen tube - where you stick the sickies (until you can figure out how to heal them)

War of the Gods

• Iblis' crashed ship - Pic and significance.

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