So tonight I was watching the old Battlestar Galactica, I mean the one form 1978.
I have vague memories of this show as a child. It was one of my favorites and an early influence like Star Wars and later Star Trek. It came on every Sunday at 8:00 followed by CHiPs at 9.
BSG 1978 has all the quirks and flows of 1970s American TV show, and its just a tweak or two away from being real 70's era shlock. Buts its not, barely.
The producers got a lot right. For starters the battlestar is the most military, most imposing spaceship ever on sci-fi TV. The crews uniforms show some creativity. The sets, especially the bridge, look military. The afore mentioned bridge, bathed in red light with radio cross-talk in the background and technicians running to and fro, looks like the CIC of an aircraft carrier. The Colonial Viper is a good looking fighter.
Look, there's plenty wrong with the show, but that's not the point. BSG gave us our first real TV sci-fi military.
It beats the heck out of Enterprise D.
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