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Revision as of 15:02, 5 April 2006

Summary

After the Cylons' surprise attack destroys the Twelve Colonies, Adama leads a rag-tag fugitive fleet with humanity's last survivors aboard the Battlestar Galactica seeking a shining planet known only as Earth.

Pivotal Plot Points

  • After the devastation at the Battle of Cimtar, the last remaining battlestar, Galactica, provides escort for a 212-ship fleet, the last human survivors of the The Twelve Colonies.
  • While fleeing the Cylons, Commander Adama convinces fleet members to follow his mystical quest: a shining planet, know only as Earth.
  • The fleet takes a rest on the planet Carillon, only to realize that the planet's inhabitants, the Ovions, are in league with the Cylons.
  • Entering into an vast, uncharted magnetic void, the fleet re-emerges at its proverbial homeworld, Kobol, but are followed by the Cylons before the location of Earth can be discerned from the hieroglphics.
  • Staying just ahead of the ever-pursuing Cylons, the fleet must slip past a huge pulsar cannon mounted in the peak of an icy world.
  • The Galactica is reunited with the Pegasus, another battlestar thought destroyed long ago; its roguish, daring commander, Cain, threatens the Cylons — as well as the fleet's unity — as a test of personalities divides the newly-joined crew
  • The Galactica is nearly destroyed in a Cylon suicide attack, which causes an inferno aboard the ship.
  • While encountering the strange Ship of Lights, the Galactica plays host to Count Iblis, who promises to deliver their goals, but at a significant cost.
  • The fleet encounter another force called the Eastern Alliance, which turns out to be not much of a threat; unfortunately, they also shed no new light on the quest for Earth.
  • Mutinies begin occurring: first, Count Baltar escapes from the prison barge and kidnaps members of the Quorum of Twelve; later, an outright mutiny occurs aboard the Celestra.
  • Tired of running, the fleet turns and faces its Cylon foes (albeit with some unconventional means, thanks in part to a captured Cylon Raider) in a major showdown.

Cast

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Episodes

Season 1 (1978-1979)

  Broadcast     Production   Episode title Airdate
1 1 Saga of a Star World September 17, 1978 (3 hrs)
2 2 Lost Planet of the Gods, Part I September 24
3 2 Lost Planet of the Gods, Part II October 1
4 4 The Lost Warrior October 8
5 5 The Long Patrol October 15
6 3 The Gun on Ice Planet Zero, Part I October 22
7 3 The Gun on Ice Planet Zero, Part II     October 29
8 6 The Magnificent Warriors November 12
9 7 The Young Lords November 19
10 8 The Living Legend, Part I November 26
11 8 The Living Legend, Part II December 3
12 9 Fire in Space December 17
13 10 War of the Gods, Part I January 14, 1979
14 10 War of the Gods, Part II January 21
15 11 The Man with Nine Lives January 28
16 12 Murder on the Rising Star February 18
17 13 Greetings from Earth February 25 (2 hrs)
18 14 Baltar's Escape March 11
19 15 Experiment in Terra March 18
20 16 Take the Celestra April 1
21 17 The Hand of God April 29