Galactica Discovers Earth, Part I
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Overview
Summary
- 30 years after the Destruction of the Colonies, the ragtag fleet receives information from remote probes that they have at last found Earth.
- Adama and Doctor Zee, a child genius that advises the Commander, discover that they have arrived at Earth in 1980, and that the planet is at a low level of cultural and technological development.
- To make his point further, Zee shows the leaders of the Fleet to a video simulating a Cylon attack on Los Angeles. The conclusion is clear, at its present level of technology, the Earth will be of no assistance to defending the fleet against the approaching Cylons.
- Adama orders pairs of warriors to contact key scientists with the various nations on Earth, to help them speed up the planet's technological capabilities. However, embittered Council Member Xavier rejects this strategy as too slow.
- Two of the Colonials to be dispatched are Adama's grandson Captain Troy (who we knew as Boxey in the former series) and Lieutenant Dillon, who are tasked with contacting scientists in the United States.
- Before they leave, Doctor Zee provides the team with some gadgets to assist their infiltration efforts.
- One of the gadgets is an invisibility cloak that can render the warriors and their vehicles unseen.
- The warriors will be able to use motorcycles to get around on the surface, which are also able to fly.
- The warriors will also have the use of stun weapons to incapacitate Earth humans without killing them.
- It is also noted that in the lighter gravity of Earth, the Colonials will have the ability to leap to great heights.
- Descending to the Earth in their Vipers, Troy and Dillon are intercepted by US Air Force fighters, and make a hasty landing in a field near Los Angeles.
- Hiding their ships with the invisibility screens, they take to their motorcycles, and shortly thereafter have a run in with a biker gang, which they escape through use of their motorcycle's flying capabilities.
- Changing into contemporary clothes, Troy and Dillon stop at a service station to make a call to the scientist they are to contact, Dr. Donald Mortinson.
- While attempting to use the phone, they run into Jamie Hamilton, who's on her way to L.A. for a job interview with the UBC television network.
- When she learns that the duo is on their way to see Dr. Mortinson, Jamie offers to give them a lift to the Pacific Institute of Technology.
- Pushing past anti-nuclear protesters at the campus, and stunning a guard, Troy and Dillon reach Dr. Mortinson's lab but he is not there.
- Before being hauled away by security, Troy and Dillon leave a complex math equation on Dr. Mortinson's computer as a way of verifying they are vistors from an advanced culture.
- Troy and Dillon are hauled off to jail.
- When Dr. Mortinson returns to his computer, he quickly realizes that the only people capable of producing the formula he is seeing on the screen must have been from another planet.
- Using their invisibility devices, Troy and Dillon escape their imprisonment.
- Meanwhile back in the field where they first arrived, the two Vipers suddenly shimmer back into view. A young boy named Willy is playing in the field with his dog, Skipper, and stumbles upon the ships, and he runs to inform his parents.
Notes
- The simulated Cylon attack on Earth reuses footage from the movie Earthquake which was released by Universal Pictures in 1974, and also starred Lorne Greene.
- Dr. Zee's video screens show a series of shots from unusual public domain sources and from other Universal properties. This is supposed to resemble a smattering of US television images, and is a decidely strange sequence, complete with eerie sound effects, which sets an odd tone early in the program. Among the images seen is Rod Serling in an introduction to the series Night Gallery.