Comments on: happy birthday battlestar galactica!

By: Jason Voss

Jason Voss — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 00:08:39 +0000

I’m actually working for a company which is building a studio scale model of the Old Galactica.Your web-site is great! so fun to see parts from the German WW2 railguns, the Morser and leopold used even on the New BSG design.

By: Capricana

Capricana — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 02:21:04 +0000

30 years since BATTLESTAR GALACTICA premiered! I remember that day well. My best friend ws all a-twitter about making sure his (then $7,000 & as big as the Galactica) VCR was up & rnning ready for the task of recording the greatest event in SiFi history!! I was a few days out from 13 years old and remember the excitement. Already a Lorne Greene fan (Bonanza), I already knew my fave character was going to be Adama!

The show starts…..my friend’s VCR humming loudly……..Pizza and cokes n hand……..watching……..watching………..getting sucked in………amazed!!…….(Lorne “Adama” Greene RULES!!!)…..and………..then………..AAAAARRRRRGGH!! An interruption by none other than Jimmy Carter and an important “breaking news State-of-the-Union” address! Lotsa blue words said at this point and the mighty Battlestar VCR was brought to a “STOP”. We waited…..and waited……and tolerated the Presidential interruption as graceful as any Colonial cadet could with promise to get the turn to shoot up the Cylons next.

After President Jimmy went away, the powerfuly oversized VCR fired up and we watched!!! It was that day, my friend became the SF Con-going Galactica character Lt. Atlas and I became the Commander’s “Shadow” Lt Capricana.

Battlestar Galactica TOS, you spawnd many a fan, many a amateur costumer struggling to “get that interesting piece of checkered braid” for the Warrior’s uniform still in the sewing machine, many a writer and the fanzines from those writing sessions. You brought a genre together, and created many creative people who otherwise would’ve been….Blah!. (me, but Nevermind the one very embarrassing instance were I met Lorne Greene in person, (as a teen, I nearly died!), had a talk with him and thanks to some easily excitible friends wandering by, had to tell him the WHOLE story of my Galactica character. (Note: He really liked the story…wouldn’t let me “run away” until I’d told all. LLLOOOLLL)

Battlestar Galactica(TOS), Happy 30th Birthday!! Your spirit lives on!!!

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:14:09 +0000

Hi im a big fan of the old series of BG i hate the new one im from England and when i was young i rememebr watching BG i loved it then about 5 years ago i bought the whole series on DVD then im Hooked i even then started to collect things to do with BG and i have a few things in my collection now, i even have a 7 foot Cylon on display in my house hoping to buy a gold one one day?????

By: Boris

Boris — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:41:21 +0000

Mojo: no, but did you know what the new title meant according to JMS?

“Over the years, some have asked me the meaning of that particular title. Knowing that we were up against the Trek juggernaut, I knew that we had to have maximum impact with our first episode, that potentially everything could be riding on this one episode in our war for survival. Hence, ‘midnight on the firing line’.” (The Babylon 5 Scripts of J. Michael Straczynski, Volume 1)

By: tim callender

tim callender — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:35:55 +0000

I was a junior in high school at the time BSG TOS aired – so I was already getting beaten up for being a Star Trek fan. But I remember that three-hour premier, though I don’t remember President Carter’s interruption! And I paid money to go see the film release version in the theater. Starbuck was cool, but my sister and I both thought that Herb Jefferson’s Boomer was THE MAN. Laurette Spang was okay, but I had a crush on the cute girl who manned Viper Launch Control.

By: darthmojo

darthmojo — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 21:41:56 +0000

BORIS: Did you know that “Blood and Thunder” was the original title of “Midnight on the Firing Line?” There’s some anniversary trivia for you!

By: Boris

Boris — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:49:07 +0000

Now that the party is almost over, let’s not forget about the upcoming fifteenth anniversary of the first episode of the first season of B5: “Midnight on the Firing Line” (aired January 26, 1994). Since the blog wasn’t around for the pilot’s anniversary, the first episode is the next best choice.

By: Darth Raww

Darth Raww — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:29:16 +0000

I was in kindergarten when BSG hit, and man how I loved those vipers (still do)!. So much, that for craft time one day I made a viper out of four empty toilet paper rolls (with some other odds and ends). Long live BSG!

By: Konrad

Konrad — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:39:52 +0000

Happy birthday BSG!!
Can’t remember when I first saw it but I had a viper and cylon raider toys as a kid. While I was always more of a Trek fan I always watched it and and I wanted to be Starbuck.

Also any show that uses the term felgercarb was cool in my books.

Thanks Ron Moore for revitalising BSG and bringing it bang up to date.

Oh and what makes me feel old is that next year it will be 10 years since DS9 ended :-(

By: pagz

pagz — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 08:25:42 +0000

I don’t know what it is about BSG that’s always stayed with me. Maybe it ws the vipers, maybe it was starbuck, maybe it was the cylons. Whatever it is, it’s been a great 30 years and I’m glad I was around for it. Happy Birthday BSG, thanks for all the good times.