Rediscovering Galactica

As mentioned before once Battlestar Galactica went off air it pretty much disappeared from public view. The last time we saw it was in 1984, aired on reruns on WOR, Channel 9.

We would not see BSG again until 97-98 when the Sci-Fi Channel reran it.

Watching the show as an adult was a revelation (we'll get into that in another post) and kindled within us an urge to write for the first time in years.

I went looking for info, but frankly there wasn't a lot out there.

I did find this site, Kobol.com. The owner, Chris Pappas, lovingly gathered all the info and facts he could find about BSG, including the old writer's guide, scripts, etc. This site has been around for 20 years and what the reader will see if he clicks over is pretty much Kobol.com looked like in early 1998.

Glen Larson and company did a good job describing how the Galactica worked, He gave us specs and some tech info. That said if one wanted to know if Galactica had anti-ship lasers, missiles, etc, the info just wan't there. He didn't even really know how many battlestars there were.

So I wrote some fan-fic. Basically Commander Kane leads a squadron of four battlestars on a raid deep into Cylon territory where they destroy several baseships, space stations and planet-side facilities. Alert readers may notice the similarity between this bit of BSG fan-fic and the Battle of Luna in To Defend the Earth.

Heh.