Battlestar Galactica is an American science fiction franchise created by Glen A. Larson. Comprised of several tv series, a line of book adaptations, original novels, comic books, a board game, and video games spanning the late 1970's into the 2010's.
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Which planet was mentioned at Kobol [spoilers]
When the humans reach Kobol and enter the tomb of Athena, they realize that Earth is the planet where the 12 constellations and the nebula are visible from. Which Earth was referred to here? Was it ...
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Was Boomer meant to actually kill this person and if so why was her attempt to so poor?
At the end of series one of Battlestar Galatica, we see Boomer shooting Adama twice in the body at near point blank range. As a member of the military (and a Cylon), if her true intention was to kill ...
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In the original war, why was there a colonial fleet?
With no other beings in the world other than the humans in the colonies,
why was there a colonial army with battleships and vipers who train to fight space wars?
In the original series it would have ...
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What does the code 1123, 6536, 5321 have to do with music?
In the final episode of Battlestar Galactica, Starbuck enters 1123 6536 5321 as co-ordinates to jump to our Earth, from the episode it had something to do with the music. I'm wondering exactly what it ...
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Why does Galactica jump so close to planets?
Why does Galactica choose to jump so frakking close to planets?
The show often describes jump destinations as in orbit or worse, low orbit. This seems like a dangerous and risky maneuver and one that ...
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Why doesn't Helo see the lurking Cylon observers as he travels with Boomer?
I know Number Six did something to Baltar and that's how the phantom Cylon agent appears to him and can't be seen by anybody else. Why doesn't Helo see the Cylons that are monitoring Him and Boomer as ...
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Civilian Aviation Engineer on BSG
What happened to the civilian aviation engineer from the Pegasus? Was he killed in an episode and I've just forgotten?
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In BSG when do we learn the assigned Cylon numbers for the models?
In BSG when do we learn the assigned Cylon numbers for the models? As a latecomer to the series, I hear people refer to cylon model numbers, but I am curious what episode those designations (e.g. ...
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What happened to Cylon model number Seven?
So obviously in Battlestar Galactica it's revealed that there are 12 models: The Significant Seven and the Final Five.
The problem is that the models go like this:
Number One
Number Two
Number ...
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BSG: How did Tigh and Boomer find the Colonial Fleet?
In Season 4 (or 4.5) of Battlestar Galactica, Ellen Tigh and Boomer escape from the Cylon Baseship in a stolen Raptor and head towards the fleet...
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What was Gina Inviere's motivation for blowing up Cloud Nine?
In "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II", Gina Inviere takes the nuke Baltar had given her and sets it off, destroying Cloud Nine and several nearby ships. The radiation from this explosion ultimately ...
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Why does Cylon number 6's back glow in episode 1?
In episode one, when Baltar is seduced by what turns out to be a Cylon in the form of a human, her spine glows red and shines through her skin. Was this just a special effect for the benefit of the TV ...
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Did the Cylons intentionally select the day of the Galactica's de-commissioning to attack the Colonies?
Is there a reason that the Cylons attacked the Colonies on the day of the Galactica's decommissioning, or was that only a coincidence written for narrative reasons?
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How do the colonials have such advanced space travel?
I know that colonial society was fairly advanced (as shown in Caprica). However, besides the advances in AI, it does not seem that their technology is that much more ahead of ours. Yet they have ...
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When and why did the beacon containing the virus get launched?
When in the Battlestar Galactica time line did the beacon from the fake Earth that carried a form of bubonic plaque actually get launched, and why?
The way I understand it, there was a diaspora from ...
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Why did the original-Earth have continents that resembled the ones on the final-Earth?
So in the end of season three I think, when Thrace comes back and says 'I found Earth', the ending zooms out of the galaxy, zooms back in, and I could have sworn I saw Florida, the continental United ...
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Given that posthumous Kara Thrace was a Seraph, what drove Kara Thrace to kill herself?
Since it is accepted and clear that Kara Thrace was a Seraph, did this Seraph have those weird visions/etc that lead her on to the suicide mission in the viper?
What exactly pushed her to kill ...
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Why didn't the 12 Colonies explore further
In the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica, it doesn't take the fleet long to reach uncharted space, and it takes perhaps less than a year for them to find Kobol.
Even if the Cylon war led to them ...
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Does Caprica reach some sort of conclusion?
I watched the first half season of Caprica, but just couldn't bring myself to keep watching it based on its pacing and differences from BSG. I wanted some answers that Caprica claimed to be about ...
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Why would the colonists choose that location for their city?
In the re-imaged version the colonists eventually find a planet which they attempt to settle on.
Here we see their newly formed city. Devoid of plant life, dusty, dirty, and sad. Sure, they have a ...
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Where was the last episode of BSG filmed?
In Daybreak Part 2, the crew of the Battlestar Galactica land on a planet which William Adama calls "Earth" because they "deserved it". Where is this part of the show filmed?
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Who first implemented the three-breasted character?
I am trying to figure out who implemented the first three-breasted character, as seen in Total Recall (1990).
I know someone who says there was such a character in the original Battlestar Galactica ...
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What are the differences between Humanoid Cylons and the Final Five?
Apparently there is a fundamental difference between the Final Five and the rest of the Humanoid Cylons. Extracted from the Cylon's Wikipedia Article:
Ronald D. Moore confirmed in an interview ...
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Should I watch Battlestar Galactica original show before watching the reboot?
Is it useful or beneficial to watch Battlestar Galactica original show before watching the reboot?
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Why do Knight Rider and Battlestar Gallactica have similar red lights?
Coincidence?
Or did Glen A. Larson just really like the cool effect?
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Why are Vipers lacking FTL?
In Battlestar Galactica, the main Colonial fighter, the Viper, lacks faster than light travel. Why is this? Raptors, ships not much larger than the Viper have the ability for FTL travel. Cylon raiders ...
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How did the Galactica survive an atomic weapons hit?
During the opening salvos of the second Cylon war, the Battlestar Galatica was engaged by several Cylon basestars. During the engagement the Cylons launched an atomic weapon which struck the Galatica ...
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Why doesn't Admiral Cain carry out her secret plan?
This question is one big spoiler for Battlestar Galactica Season 2 episodes "Resurrection Ship Part I" and "Resurrection Ship Part II".
In Part I of "Resurrection Ship", Admiral Cain and ...
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How do the Cylons stay on Earth undetected?
At the end of the new series,
Has this question ever come up with the producers/writers?
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Was there a meaning to the song used in Battlestar Galactica episode
Not sure how much of this is a spoiler, but I'll put it in the tags anyways. Hover over the section below to read the question.
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Why Didn't the “Final Five” Program a Respect for Humans in Humaniform Cylons?
In the newer Battlestar Galactica, the "Final Five," who are really the "Original Five" humaniform Cylons are humans who have figured out how to make artificial bodies and to live forever by creating ...
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Why does the paper in Battlestar Galactica have the corners cut off?
In Battlestar Galactica (the reimagined series), as far as I can see all the paper have their 4 corners removed? While I don't remember an in-universe mention of it (there want really a need), did the ...
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Are a Human Replicators and a Human Cylons the same?
I know they are from two different scifi series but if the Human Cylons and the Human Replicator would ever meet, would they consider themselves the same?
What makes them different? The same?
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Could Hera Agathon really be Mitochondrial Eve?
In the final episode of the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica series, the human-Cylon hybrid child Hera is revealed to be Mitochondrial Eve (the woman from whom all living humans today descend, on ...
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How Old Were the Final Five?
I know different numbers were used and tossed around, but I was never clear about this. How old were the "Final Five," or the original humaniform survivors of the first Earth that taught the Cylons ...
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What Kind of Government Did the Cylons Have?
The Cylon community could be broken down into the time before the "Final Five" appeared and after, since once the Final Five showed up, they would have outside influences and likely change a lot by ...
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What is the point of Number Six killing a baby on Caprica?
In the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica, the Cylon Number Six models are depicted as sympathetic characters toward the end of the series (they rebel against the Cavils, they join the humans, they ...
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What are the name of the 12 original Battlestars
In the miniseries it is said that there was 12 original Battlestars, one for each of the 12 colonies of man. We know that Galactica of Caprica was one of them. Do we know any of the other twelve and ...
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Why Would The Gun on Ice Planet Zero Hold Up an Entire Fleet?
In the original Battlestar Galactica, there was a two-part episode, The Gun on Ice Planet Zero. It was based on the film The Guns of Naverone, a World War II story where a fleet was bottled up in an ...
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What was the Cylon's “plan”?
The opening credits for Battlestar Galactica state that the Cylons "have a plan"; but what it was escapes me.
What, exactly, was the Cylon plan; who formulated it, and in what episodes was it ...
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Does a spaceship lose air reserves every time an airlock is opened?
Something seemed to me a little bit bizarre when watching some movies or series that take place in space.
When someone wants to leave a ship (either alone or with a smaller vehicle), there must be ...
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Why Couldn't the Nuke that Blew Up Cloud 9 Be Traced?
This could be my memory and I could have missed something, but I know Balter requested a nuclear warhead from Adama to use for the Cylon detector (which worked, but which he claimed didn't work). ...
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How did Cavil manage to sneak the Five into human society?
Cavil must have gone to great lengths to introduce the Five into the human population. You can see some of the effort in The Plan, though that is more to save a Five already in the population. ...
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When did the five have an opportunity to create the skin-jobs?
In BSG it is said that the skin jobs were created by the Final 5. We also know that the skin jobs were created between the last war and the current timeline. However, some of the Final 5 (namely
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How Human are Humaniform Cylons?
After the Cylon ambush, when the government asks Balter to build a Cylon detector, they have just recently learned there are "skin jobs" (as they call them) that look like humans, but they aren't sure ...
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What Happened to the Cylon Detector?
Soon after the Cylon attack and the Galactica's escape from the destruction of the Twelve Colonies, Balter says he can build a Cylon detector and he is working on it for several episodes, but it is ...
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Why Did an Angel Seem to Want to Drive Baltar Mad?
In a a later episode of Battlestar Galactica (the 21st century re-imagining) Baltar says that angels come to us as images of people we have known and we do find out, along the way, we find out that ...
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What was the “Sagittaron Storyarc” in BSG season 3?
In the Wikipedia entry on the Twelve Colonies it is mentioned that Baltar's backstory had to be changed in season 3, because the writers dropped the "Sagittaron Storyarc". From what I found out about ...
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Why was there a maximum of 12 Cylons?
There were only 12 types of skin-job Cyclons in the new Battlestar Galactica. Why this (low) limit? Was this ever (in-universe) established?
