Battlestar Galactica

By Graeme McMillan Instead, let's start with the TV and movie tie-ins of the week: Battlestar Galactica: The Final Five collects the mini-series that told a possible backstory for everyone's favorite Cylons, and it's better than you might expect. Meanwhile, Star Trek Alien Spotlight: Cardassians fulfi...

This Battlestar Galactica prequel just cast another actor to play William Adama — no, not the future Admiral, but his grandfather. Aleks Paunovic will play ...

By Graeme McMillan Looking back at the fictional stories that defined the last decade, you might think of things like The Dark Knight, Battlestar Galactica, or failures like Bionic Woman and Speed Racer. Was this the decade we ran out of original ideas?

By Lauren Davis We've selected ten types of science fiction fans, offering you great gift ideas for fans of the big franchises, this summer's biggest movies, and even something for the steampunks and zombie lovers. You can also check out our fan gift guide from last year, which also includes gift ideas fo...

By Alasdair Wilkins Battlestar Galactica, The Prisoner, Knight Rider, V — all these classic (and not so classic) shows have received 21st century updates. So it's really high time that the cheesiest, strangest, most metaphysical space opera of them all returned: Space: 1999!

By Alasdair Wilkins Science-fiction fans sometimes focus too much on the negative, in a world where remakes run rampant and Sarah Connor Chronicles dies so that Til Death might live. But here are six things I'm thankful for in science fiction right now.

By Charlie Jane Anders When the Battlestar Galactica prequel Caprica hired Desperate Housewives veteran Kevin Murphy as a producer last month, we hoped for the best. But now Murphy is reportedly replacing BSG's Jane... This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

By Charlie Jane Anders Remember a while back, when we showed you six draft posters for the Battlestar Galactica prequel Caprica? Syfy has chosen the final poster... and it's very naked. Would you Adam and Eve it? Full... This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

By Charlie Jane Anders We're lucky enough to feature Quantum Mechanix's authentic replica of the Cylon targets used on Battlestar Galactica before any other site — even Quantum Mechanix's own site. They're model-makers who brought you the amazing animated-style BSG figures, the Cylon raider filming minat...

By Andrew Liptak The Cold War affected science fiction during some of its most important and formative years. SF books published during the Cold War reflected that period's politics as well as its rapidly-advancing technologies. Here is a short history of the relationship between the Cold War and scienc...

By Annalee Newitz According to special effects designer Darth Mojo, who worked on the Battlestar DVD movie The Plan, there is an undocumented (until now) easter egg in the film. Want to find out more? Here's what he... This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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By Annalee Newitz I knew Monday night's episode of Heroes was going to be good from the instant that the "story so far" clips showed Claire's lesbian kiss with hot roomie Gretchen, King Jeremy's dead parents, and Head Sylar going apeshit. Spoilers ahead!

By Charlie Jane Anders What's the secret connection between Quentin Tarantino and Felix Gaeta? What relationship between Bear McCreary (in person) and Starbuck did we almost see? We've got the exclusive answers, from Battlestar Galactica: The Official Companion Season Four.

By Charlie Jane Anders If you buy enough copies of Battlestar Galactica: "The Plan," coming out tomorrow, Edward James Olmos is determined to make more BSG direct-to-DVD epics. We asked Olmos what those films would be about, and he explained what happened to Starbuck. So what's the deal with Starbuck?

By Annalee Newitz One of the main ways that men bare their butts in science fiction, however, is a little less disturbing. Let's call it the "I'm in some kind of futuristic device and have to be naked" excuse. There's Anders in Battlestar Galactica, whose nakedness is just hinted at:

By Annalee Newitz Battlestar Galactica DVD movie "The Plan," coming out Tuesday, tells the Cylons' side of the story. It's about why they attacked the colonies, and what they wanted from humanity. But watching it will leave you with more questions than answers. The Plan" will be available in stores on Oct. 27.

By Meredith Woerner newVideoPlayer("/theplan_exclusive_io9.flv", 500, 375,""); Six is on crutches, Cavil is plotting, and Simon is married. In the cylon-centric Battlestar Galactica DVD The Plan, we get new spin on our...

By Charlie Jane Anders Spoileriffic: Jon Favreau explains the central relationship in Iron Man 2. There are tons of revealing pics from Battlestar Galactica: "The Plan." Predators gets a star. Also: clues to Lost episode... This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

By Annalee Newitz What has happened is that science fiction on television has for the most part become indistinguishable from most other television shows which are written for women filled with moronic relationship drama. Sure the moronic relationship drama is in space, but . . . its not science fiction anym...

By Meredith Woerner The Edward James Olmos directed film, Battlestar Galactica: The Plan, is gearing up for a release and we've got all the details. The 112-minute feature has all new Cylon-on-human action, plus... This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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By Annalee Newitz If you've been yearning to see what old-school Battlestar Galatica would look like recreated with new-school CGI, then you're about to have a fangasm. FX artist Darth Mojo, who worked on the new BSG... This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

By Charlie Jane Anders Star Trek: Reinventing the Enterprise and creating other new classic ships. Stargate Universe concept art: inside the Destiny Lost In Space: a weirdly awesome space fighter. Battlestar Galactica: bringing her back out of mothballs.

By Charlie Jane Anders She was writing this back in the 1970s, so the specific accusations about SF are outdated. But as a summation of the "escapism is childish and not literary" viewpoint, it's pretty much perfect. And as you can tell, a big part of the hatred for escapism comes from a desire to be literary, and to b...

By Graeme McMillan In SF math, Does Lost + Battlestar Galactica = SGU: Stargate Universe? The new Syfy show started last night, and we liked it quite a bit. But what did you think? Use the comments below to share your... This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

By Charlie Jane Anders Oh, and there will be some spoilers for recent TV episodes here — most notably Fringe. Garret Dillahunt on Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Doctor Carson Beckett on Stargate Atlantis Denise Crosby on Star Trek: The Next Generation. Katee Sackhoff on Battlestar Galactica.

By Charlie Jane Anders Science fiction TV shows used to be about scientists playing God — now our intrepid heroes meet God, instead. The overt religious discussions on Battlestar Galactica stood out as unusual, but now every SF show brandishes a bible. What happened? The rise of Space Jesus?

By Lauren Davis Battlestar Galactica: Caprica Six, Sharon Agathon, and Laura Roslin share a dream-like premonition. Although it's not a literal vision of the future, at least Sharon fears it signifies a future in which Baltar and Caprica kidnap Hera, although in the end, they merely rescue the child fr...

By Annalee Newitz We wouldn't care what happens to Gotham unless we also cared about what happens to the characters who inhabit it. Indeed, some of the best MacGuffins straddle the line between being objects and characters. The Terminator of Terminator 2 is both a main character in the film and the MacGuffin...

By Charlie Jane Anders Caprica We couldn't leave this Battlestar Galactica prequel out — that plucky Zoe Graystone gets killed in a terrorist bombing, but luckily she's figured out a way to back up her brain electronically first, because the human mind only takes up about 300 MB of disk space.

By Charlie Jane Anders More importantly, Echo will be trying to gain allies — and Paul Ballard will be the first person she reaches out to. But she'll also reach out to others, and she'll be trying to create the kind of family that we wished we could have seen in the Dollhouse during the first season. (In other words: S...

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By Charlie Jane Anders The Battlestar Galactica TV movie, "The Plan," won't appear this fall as originally planned. Instead, it'll air sometime in 2010. But it'll still come out on DVD Oct. 27, with a much longer cut than... This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

By Charlie Jane Anders Is the Battlestar Galactica spin-off Caprica in trouble? One site reported over the weekend that the show is shutting down production due to concerns about the scripts — similar to what... This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

By Graeme McMillan It's the revival you never thought you'd see: Galactica 1980, the short-lived disco-era revamp of the original Battlestar Galactica, is back in a new comic by Marc Guggenheim and Cesar Rezik. Click... This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

By Graeme McMillan Smashing may help the political state of the Romulan empire, which is somewhat shaky in IDW's Star Trek Romulans: Schism, while Dynamite add their voice to the licensed choir with what may turn out to be the surprise of the week: The first issue of Galactica 1980, resurrecting (and promis...

By Graeme McMillan If Bryan Singer's hoped-for Battlestar Galactica reboot actually happens, will it take its visual cues from the original television series? Concept artist Eric Chu thinks so, and he's created some...

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By Lauren Davis Battlestar Galactica: Glowing spines would have been a handy way to tell the Cylons from the humans, but barring that, there are a few other ways to tell if the person you're sexing up is a Cylon. Baltar and Tyrol both date Cylon women with a penchant for sabotage, but Helo gets the most defini...

By Lauren Davis The Cylons (Battlestar Galactica): The creators of Battlestar Galactica have said that cylon Number Six is a tribute to The Prisoner, and it follows that each humanoid cylon model would have its own number, with the notable exception of the Final Five. Most cylon models are known collect...

By Graeme McMillan You can pitch us an all-new idea, a spin-off of an existing series or concept, or whatever you want... as long as it's something more interesting than "All of Grace Park's scenes from Battlestar Galactica in long, lingering, slow-motion with a soundtrack by popular 1990s European dance act...

By Jesse Alexander Before Apollo and Starbuck began frakking and fighting in Battlestar Galactica, the Wildcards of Space: Above and Beyond were dogfighting in their Hammerheads, bar-brawling with in-vitro hating racists, and elbow-deep in martian mud as alien artillery screamed from the sky.

By Charlie Jane Anders Here's Head Six talking to Baltar in a couple of different season two episodes: This was the major weak spot of the latest Star Trek movie for me, and it's something that Shakespeare positively invented with the story of Henry Percy, who becomes Henry V, in Henry IV parts one and two, and Hen...

By Lauren Davis Cylons (Battlestar Galactica): Artificial beings have been oppressed by humans since Karel Čapek's R.U.R. premiered, and they've been turning on their masters just as long. The Cylons get bonus points, not because the nature of their oppression is unique, but because they're simultaneo...

By Charlie Jane Anders He's already livened up Torchwood, Smallville and Dragonball, but now Buffy's punky vampire, James Marsters, is joining the cast of Caprica, the prequel to Battlestar Galactica. He'll play a... This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

By Graeme McMillan Even if you're the greatest Bryan Singer fan in the world - and I'm sure someone out there saw Valkyrie and thought, "Man, if only this guy could have handled the Galactica reboot instead of that Roswell dude" - the idea of anyone handling a new version of Battlestar Galactica less than a yea...

By Charlie Jane Anders Nothing says "geek pride" than a laptop covered with cool, colorful stickers. And nothing's better than stickers which display your love for Star Trek, Firefly or superheroes. Here are 100+ science-fiction stickers that will make your laptop hum with awesomeness.

By Graeme McMillan Universal have confirmed that Bryan Singer will produce and direct the big-screen reboot of Battlestar Galactica, following up on Wednesday's leak from HitFix.com. Singer will producer the movie with...

By Graeme McMillan We're not even done! Dynamite Entertainment collects the first year of its Battlestar Galactica comics in the Battlestar Galactica Omnibus Vol. 1 (Worth reading for the Greg Pak story that takes up the bulk of the book, which deals with concepts that were raised, but never properly dealt...

By Charlie Jane Anders So the BSG TV movie, "The Plan," is airing some time this fall, and it retraces the first two seasons of the show from the point of view of the Cylons. And, we've been hearing, the Machiavellian Brother Cavil will take center stage. So we asked Park if we'll come away from "The Plan" with a greate...

By Annalee Newitz I think this problem is part of what makes the second half of the premiere episode a little choppy and confusing. A lot of plot developments happen really quickly and somewhat inexplicably, although you'll be left wanting to see more. This is a pilot, after all, so some slapdashery can be for...

By Lauren Davis BSG and Caprica creators Ron Moore and David Eick, showrunner Jane Espenson, and actor Esai Morales, who plays Bill Adama's Tauron father Joseph, spoke at yesterday's Caprica/Battlestar Galactica panel about what we can expect from the show's first season.

By Charlie Jane Anders So yes, we're going to try and recap Torchwood, "Children Of Earth," as it appears on BBC America this week. Many of you may already have seen the episodes when they aired on the suffix-less BBC a couple weeks ago, but I'm going on the theory that most non-die-hard fans waited. Plus, for those o...

By Lauren Davis Battlestar Galactica: The bathroom holds particular dramatic significance for BSG's doctor/Cylon collaborator/nymph squad prophet Gaius Baltar. It's where Laura Roslin asks him to be her vice president – and where she later threatens to hang his presidential portrait. It's also whe...

By Stephen Goldmeier To me, this is where Lost most clearly distinguishes itself from BSG. In his essay, Templeton says that BSG lost sight of its true goal of character development in its final episodes. Lost seems to be not only sticking to these character roots, but moving even further towards them in its fina...

By Charlie Jane Anders Here's what I always come back to when I think about the BSG finale, though — I feel as though Moore put us on notice with the final episode of season three. When we first encounter the mysterious Bob Dylan Cylon signal, and four totally random characters turn out to be Cylons, and Starbuck com...

By Charlie Jane Anders A big part of "Children Of Earth"'s amazing success simply comes from sharp writing — with a few very notable exceptions, almost every scene in the five episodes was written with a shrewdness and intensity that very few science fiction programs have ever achieved for one episode, let alo...

By Meredith Woerner The next thing that I really want to do is find the next great space opera it's been a long time. And we have Stargate, but that's really not that show. And Caprica isn't really that show. So where's the next Star Trek or Farscape? Let's find one of those.

By Graeme McMillan Battlestar Galactica Okay, this is slightly unfair; I thought BSG was a wonderful show, despite all of the above, one that engaged my heart and my mind and poked and prodded in all the right ways, questioning and exciting and entertaining (if you can use that word for such a constantly depr...

By Annalee Newitz Last night's Battlestar Galactica episode, "The Oath," about a violent, tragic anti-cylon rebellion in the Fleet, was one of the series' best. It was also a character study of how a good person goes... This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

By Annalee Newitz After chatting briefly with the extremely nice (and still-ultra-hunky) Ben "Farscape" Browder at Comic-Con, I realized what society needs most right now: A reboot of 1990s space opera Farscape. Supposedly the Sci-Fi Channel is airing 10 Farscape webisodes, but those have yet to mater...

By Charlie Jane Anders Tonight's the last episode of Battlestar Galactica until the "first quarter of 2009" (which could mean March!), but don't go into withdrawal symptoms yet. There's an obscure 1990s show called Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, which is currently in heavy rotation on Spike. It shares a lot of the s...

 CA - May 30, 2008 And he even claims he doesn't know who the final Cylon is, and they're filming the 18th episode of the season now. But maybe he was telling the truth the ... The Man Behind Gaeta and ''L'' IGN all 2 news articles