From: hora@ecf.toronto.edu (HO ROBERT ANDREW)
Subject: Re: Battlestar Galactica ??
Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 22:24:58 GMT

In article <1992Sep15.194624.15641@afterlife.ncsc.mil> acadams@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Arthur C. Adams) writes:
>In article <1992Sep15.115226.58891@cc.usu.edu> slg7m@cc.usu.edu writes:
>>Back in the late seventies when Battlestar Galactica was being aired on
>>primetime tv, I seem to vaguely recall a couple of episodes in which they
>>actually do find Earth.  Does anyone else remember this?  Or am I just looney
>>(to steal someone out there's words)?  Every once in a while, a local station
>>here will re-air the entire series, except for those final episodes.
>
>Well, not quite.
>
>ABC did a "sequel" to Galactica called Galactica: 1980.
>This featured a mostly new cast, (Lorne Greene was there, but
>I think he was the only one). 
>
>The ship had found Earth, and so had the Cylons. 
>Basically, the show focused on Galactica warriors, 
>operating in secret and fighting Cylons on Earth. 
>
>But for one episode, the show was horrendously bad.
>
>The one good one explained "Whatever happened to Starbuck?"
>Spoiler Ahead, But  I don't think anyones going to be seeing the episode;
>
>There was a super-genius kid on the show that essentially was
>an advisor to Adama (this kid made Wesley Crusher look like
>a mormal adolescent boy!) As it turns out, (this is from
>very distant memory, mind you), Starbuck had crashed on 
>some planet. He met a woman there and fathered Kid Genius,
>but dies before he was rescued. 
>-- 
>The world is not analog. The world is digital,
>with an incredible number of bits.
>Arthur C. Adams (not the comic-book artist)                        <fnord>
>E-Mail acadams@afterlife.ncsc.mil



Amazing what one remembers, but...

Most of the original BG cast is gone in this series except, as mentioned
above, Lorne Greene (who's back as Adama).  I think Boomer also appeared in
a few episodes as a Colonel (appearing in what used to be Cnl Tigh's role).
The two main characters were named Troy and Dillon.  Troy was Apollo's son
Boxey all grown up.  Dillon was played by Barry van Dyke (of Airwolf 'fame')
Hmmm.  The opening 3-part episode was about them finding earth and discovering
that we are/were technologically inferior to them so that they couldn't land
here for fear of bringing the Cylons here.  Instead, on the advice of the
aforementioned boy genius, they led the Cylons away while sending scouting
teams to earth (of which Troy and Dillon were one) to give advanced knowledge
to different scientists to speed up our tech advances.  One of the councilors
named Xavier wanted to use their new time travel equiped vipers to go back
in time and bring tech advances to peope in our past (he chose the Nazis).
Anyway, i think there was a female reporter named Jamie Hamilton? who also
was a regular.

(Oh, and in the above episode, I don't think Starbuck was the biological 
father, since he when he found the women, she was already pregnant?  There
was supposed to be something mystical about her or something since Starbuck
launched a rescue pod made from the remains of his crashed ship with her
and hte baby in it but only the baby was onboard when the Galactica found it.
Some interesting stuff in that episode too with Starbuck rebuilding a 
damaged Cylon and becoming friends with it).


Geez, did I remember all that by myself???  I really didn't have a life back 
then, did I (even for a seven year old)
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