Lost Planet of the Gods, Part I

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Overview

Overview

Part One:

As Serina and Apollo celebrate their engagement several warriors aboard the Galactica are stricken with a mysterious virus that threatens to wipe them all out. Meanwhile a mysterious black void causes more alarm for the fleet and Adama must now rely on the training of inexepeirenced shuttle pilots to take the place of the stricken colonial warriors.

Summary

With many warriors suffering from an unknown ailment, the Galactica recruits new viper pilots—mostly young women, including Apollo's new bride, Serena. Led by Adama's spiritual interpretations, the fleet enters a vast magnetic void, emerging at the planet Kobol, their legendary homeworld. Before Adama can discover Earth's location from the inscribed hieroglyphs, though, a Cylon attack destroys the sacred city on Kobol—and claims the life of Serena.

Questions

• Apollo asks Serina if she knows how many shuttle pilots were lost on Carillon. She replies many civilians were lost too. The implications are the number civilians and Colonial Warriors killed when the planet was destroyed may have been high. An exact figure is never stated.

Notes

On the deleted scene in the DVD box set there is a scene with Serina piloting a shuttle and making her first landing. There is dialouge in the aired episode from Boomer to Jolly about this landing when Boomer says "Hey head's up Jolly, that first cadet pilot made a better landing then you."

Several of the female warriors would again be shown in future episodes during battle scenes and and the female warrior Bre would be given some dialouge in the episode "War of The Gods"

The character of Serina was originally to be given a larger role in the series. In the pilot there were scenes shot where she met with a doctor and her illness was dis-closed, some sort of cancer like ailement. This was to have played out during the series run, but when Jane Seymour elected not to return for the entire series her character was killed off.

During the preview of the episode there is a scene showing Starbuck instructing the female warriors but this scene is not included in the episode as aired or on the deleted scene on the DVD.

The opening prolouge is changed from that of the feature film. Gone is the mention of the lost civilizations of Lemuria and Atlantis. The dialouge is shortned and the end tag is changed to "who even now fight to survive, somehwere beyond the heavens"

Statistics

Guest Stars

• Jane Seymour as Serina

Writing & Direction

• Written by Glen A. Larson & Donald Bellisario
• Directed by Christian I. Nyby II

Production Notes

• Series 1 (1978 / 1979)
• Production Number: 104
• Airdate Order: 2 (of 21)

First Run Air Dates & Releases

• UK Airdate: Date
• US Airdate: September 24, 1978
• DVD Release: December 28, 2004