Battlestar News 2005

The Science Fiction Buzz is running a raffle/contest to win either the Stargate Atlantis Season One DVD set or the Battlestar Galactica Season One Set to raise awareness about breast cancer and what you can do to protect yourself. October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and the raffle runs the entire month with the winners being chosen on October 31, 2005. It's free to enter, and everyone who enters receives our weekly eNew/eZine filled with news about Battlestar Galactica, Stargate Atlantis, SG-1 and all the other worlds that make up the science fiction genre.

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Ron Moore Interviews are now on Now Playing Mag

Moore Hints at Galactica Season Three
http://www.nowplayingmag.com/content/view/2150/2/

The Religion of Galactica
http://www.nowplayingmag.com/content/view/2212/2/

Moore’s Cylons: "Just Not About Destruction"
http://www.nowplayingmag.com/content/view/2308/2/

Source: Lola from ApolloStarbuckFic Group

For all you Battlestar Galactica fans, there's an online chat with Aaron Douglas and Tahmoh Penikett this Saturday 8th Oct at around 1pm UK time in the Wolf Chat Room

http://forums.delphiforums.com/Chatters12

Aaron Douglas and Tahmoh Penikett will chat online live from Wolf's Battlestar One Convention in the Thistle Hotel Heathrow London UK on this Saturday afternoon (tickets are still available from Wolf if you want to go to the event)

Please make sure you can get into the chat room well before the day of the chat.

How the chat will work!

You will be able to put your questions to Aaron & Tahmoh live, but in they will be in batches. The mod will tell you when to put your questions up, you will have about 30 or 50 secs to do this, so have your question ready before hand. The mod will then put the room on hold so that Aaron & Tahmoh can scroll back over everyone's questions and pick out the ones they want to answer. Please don't be disappointed if yours isn't picked. We will do this over and over so you can have more than one go.

When the room is on mod you will not be able to type in the chat. There is nothing wrong with your computer this is what happens when the chat room goes on mod.

Each actor will have roughly ½ hour online, I'm not sure which for them will be up first as this is a live chat and there will be a lot going on at the event.

As this is a live chat there may well be a few problems on the day, if there are please bare with us while we sort them out, i.e. we may not start on time and I may have to pinch a fans laptop LOL!

Anyway, join us if you can and have fun.

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Andrew from the Galactica CIC posted info about a short video on the Zoic webpage.

For those of you who don't know, Zoic is the special effects company that's responsible for Battlestar Galactica, as well as Firefly, Serenity, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel and a number of other television shows, commercials and feature films.

Read more... to get the link and instructions for watching the video.

It's a nice little demo reel. A fun collection of shots from the series put to some great music.

Source: Unofficial Battlestar Blog

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Entertainment Weekly on CNN has recommended the first season DVD release of Ronald D. Moore's BATTLESTAR GALACTICA on this week's Top Ten Must See List.

Source: TrekWeb

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Lawless Ink Updated - Lucy Talks About Upcoming Merchandise

Posted on 06 Oct 2005
Source: The Australian Lucy Lawless News & Multimedia Fan Site

Heres a part of what Lucy has to say:

The last two days I have been visiting t-shirt wholesalers to find garments I'd be proud to put my name on. My best friend, Marissa, and daughter, Daisy, came along and gave invaluable advice about what they look for in a tee, given our differing and glorious body types. Some of the colours I wanted were not available. Some of the sizes wanted were not available.

READ MORE...

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This isn't in bookstores yet, but the online retailers are now selling and shipping the new book:

Battlestar Galactica is back! The brand new, ‘re-imagined’ version of the cult 1970s series has quickly become the most critically acclaimed SF show on TV, with massive viewing figures to match. With its classy ensemble cast, including Edward James Olmos and Mary McDonnell, its cutting edge special effects, superb production design and gritty, adult-oriented scripts, the new Battlestar Galactica is being hailed as both a worthy successor to a classic original, and a stunning piece of television in its own right.

Titan Books have been on set from the beginning, and now proudly present the official companion, packed with exclusive interviews, photos, behind the scenes secrets, and a complete episode guide to the mini-series and first season.

Get yours here:

Source:All About Tahmoh Penikett Blog

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Here are the links to the interviews that Kristen did with Jamie Bamber and Ron Moore. The first link is the one with Jamie and the second one is with Ron... enjoy

• Jamie Bamber Interview
  
• Ron Moore Interview

Source: Beth from anglstrmoon.livejournal.com

Her sig: ~*Beth*~ "Act like yourself, not how anyone else wants you to." "No other way, no day but TODAY!" "We have our entire future ahead of us. Who needs to rush."

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If you're creative and looking for a way to fill the BSG hiatus, check out the BSG Hiatus Ficathon: Sign ups: until 10th October 2005 Fics due: 30th November 2005 Character and/or pairing: Request (scenario for character or pairing): Spoilers to: 3 things you want in your fic: 3 things you don't want: What you will write: What you won't write: Pinch-hit?: Here's the BSG Ficathon main page over BSG Hiatus Ficathon

Sign-ups: Unitl October 10, 2005
Final entries due: November 30, 2005

Source: Justine at All About Tahmoh Penikett blog.

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Supanova, a pop culture expo being held in Sydney, Australia Oct. 14-16, has invited Joffre St. Productions, producers of (Cool) Shite on the Tube, to interview national and international guests for show podcasts.

"This partnership proves that audio-on-demand is a viable alternative to traditional media and distribution methods," said Joffre St. Productions Director, Bruce Moyle. "It also provides subcultures and niche interests a way to represent themselves on a global platform. Pop-culture is cool, podcasting is cool, and the combination of the two is not only compelling but a lot of fun!"

Some of the featured guests at Supanova include John Rhys-Davies (Lord of the Rings), Richard Hatch (Battlestar Galactica), and Sam J. Jones (Flash Gordon).

Additional information is available at the Supanovasite.

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A very good news post on a number of Season 2 storylines that they're going to be exploring in the second half, which is airing in January:

Battlestar Galactica Executive Producer Ron Moore and actor Jamie Bamer took part in a Q & A session at E!Online. Ron reveals what’s coming up in Season 2, Part 2:

Spoiler Below ===>> Highlight It if you want to read it.
"Second half of the season starts in January. We shot the first ten then took a four week break in the summer, but we’re back. Right now we’re shooting episode 15 and we will continue shooting until first week in December."
"The second half of the season obviously is going to deal with the cliffhanger where we left off, with Pegasus and Galactica about to do battle. First episode will deal with that. Then we’re going to do some episodes with, well, one of the characters who’s going to have a major role to play is Lee Adama. He’s going to go on his own emotional journey and eventually find himself."
"There’s a big Laura episode. You get to see her life on Caprice before the attack, and you’ll get to meet president Adar, who was the president she worked for when she was the Secretary of Education. And you’ll get to see a glimpse of what her life was like before she found out she got cancer and before the attack."
"There’s a storyline where Baltar’s sort of growing affinity for the Cylons becomes more prominent and he starts becoming somewhat darker and scarier character as time goes on."
"We’re going to be doing big episodes with the other battlestar, Pegasus. We’ve got a big fighter plane combat episode that’s all about Kara and one of our other pilots named Kat and their competition with each other and sort of with themselves as regards to one Cylon raider out there that keeps coming back and killing pilots again and again."
"We’re gonna try to do a couple of really controversial episodes. We’re gonna deal with some sort of hot-button issues of today that will be translated into Galactica’s world. Like abortion is definitely going to become an issue on the show."
"We’re going to do a Cylon-oriented episode later in the season that’s sort of a story that’s told primarily from the cylon’s point of view for the first time. Sort of get inside their heads, see what they’re about when they’re not out chasing Galactica. And then we’ve got, of course, a big two-part finale where a lot of things are gonna change, and the show’s gonna sort of make a fairly significant, radical change of direction."
What about a renewal for Season 3? "We’re having general conversations about it. The network hasn’t made it a formal pickup. I’d say the indications look good. But they don’t have to pull the trigger on it for a few more months. It’s just the way networks work, they will probably not do it until they have to. February or March. I’m optimistic. I’ve been optimistic since we did the miniseries that we’d get picked up and I feel that we’re going to get picked up."

Meanwhile, Jamie reveals (to the delight of his fans) that Apollo will be, urm, revealing a lot more of himself and will be seeing "lots of loving. Looots of looooving. Yeah, my bathrobe has been on my peg in my trailer almost every day it seems. Lots of relationship stuff. Lots of darkness. He gets into a very dark place and almost does away with himself. He gets lost in space for a bit and thinks nobody’s going to rescue him and goes to a very dark moment which then affects everything else that he does. He questions everything that goes on and holds everyone else at a distance. Basically falls apart a bit and in that, he falls into many different arms, so it’s gonna to be interesting. It’s a really good story for him in the second half of the season, and I think he ends up then commanding the Pegasus as well for a bit. He’s got a lot to do."

Source: The CIC

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Enter here: Win Battlestar Galactica First Season DVDs

Science Fiction Buzz is running a raffle/contest to win either the Stargate Atlantis Season One DVD set or the Battlestar Galactica Season One Set to raise awareness about breast cancer and what you can do to protect yourself. October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and the raffle runs the entire month with the winners being chosen on October 31, 2005. It's free to enter, and everyone who enters receives our weekly eNew/eZine filled with news about Battlestar Galactica, Stargate Atlantis, SG-1 and all the other worlds that make up the science fiction genre.

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China's Daily reported that China's second manned spacecraft blasted off from a remote northwestern launch site on Wednesday, two years after the country joined an elite club of space powers.

An elated Premier Wen Jiabao and other leaders were in Jiuquan to witness the launch, which has raised China's astronautic profile alongside new-found diplomatic and economic clout.

"You will once again show that the Chinese people have the will, confidence and capability to mount scientific peaks ceaselessly," Xinhua news agency quoted Wen as telling the astronauts.

State television carried blanket coverage of the launch, using a slightly modified version of the theme from the 1970s U.S. cult sci-fi series "Battlestar Galactica" as background music.

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"Battlestar Galactica" composer Bear McCreary's band 17 Billion Miles of DNA will perform a live internet concert on Thrusday, October 20, 2005.

Here's the scoop:

"Battlestar Galactica" composer Bear McCreary's band 17 Billion Miles of DNA will perform a live internet concert Thursday, October 20th @ 9pm. This bizarre little jazz band is best described as Django Reinhardt meets Astor Piazzola meets Axl Rose. "Battlestar" vocalist Bt4 will be singing lead vocals, and "Battlestar" percussion maestro M.B. Gordy will be on drums. McCreary plays accordion, and provides all the original songs and arrangements.

LIVE INTERNET CONCERT
Thursday, Oct. 20th @ 9pm
http://www.kulakswoodshed.com/

Also, if you're in the Los Angeles area, come check them out live at The Mint on Tuesday, October 18th @ 9m (7$ Cover). They will be opening for the remarkable Raya Yarbrough, whose voice frequently haunts the "Battlestar Galactica" score (including the piece in "Pegasus" when Admiral Cain first boards the Galactica!).

Source: Soundtrack.net

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Uemedia has posted a very interesting article on the visual effects of the new Battlestar Galactica, going into detail about how the CGI is created by Zoic Studios. If you like the space scenes, this article will reveal a lot of how-it's-accomplished.

So Say We All: The Visual Effects of "Battlestar Galactica" By Noah Kadner

READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE

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From the Houston Chronicle comes an interesting article about the women of science fiction. We've always known we were cool, kick-ass, emotionally complex creatures, but here's another article commenting on it. :)

The article focuses on Zoe Washburn from Firefly/Serenity fame, but our favorite, Starbuck as well as a bit of Laura Roslin is thrown in just to round out the article. Makes interesting reading whatever your gender.

READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE

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- OUR MISSION - Our mission is to raise the awareness about breast cancer in the science fiction community and to act as a resource for folks seeking more information. We have breast cancer information available at: Free Breast Cancer Information & Raffle Sign-up. While you're there, enter our raffle to Win Stargate Atlantis or Battlestar Galactica DVDs. In addition, we want to make Science Fiction Buzz an effective distraction for all people facing or going through a high-stress period in their lives. Think of us as an education resource and a safe harbor in the storms of life. Stop by and sit in our virtual hot tub and read a good science fiction novel. Kick back and take your mind off of things. And, if you need information about breast cancer, we can help you there, too.

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Jamie Bamber, stud on BSG, has made it into the pages of Fleshbot:

The new Battlestar Galactica, whose second season is now, tragically, ending, is almost certainly the best televised science fiction series ever. (Apologies to Firefly fans.) One could cite the quality of the acting and writing, or the silence of the space battles, which marks television’s belated acknowledgement that sound does not travel in a vacuum. But this is Fleshbot. So let us give credit to the shower scenes. In Final Cut, a recent episode, Lee Adama, aka Apollo, commander of the Viper pilots, struggles with a skimpy towel as a reality TV camera pans up and down his torso. Apollo is prime space totty, and the camera lingers lovingly for a good couple of minutes.

CLICK HERE FOR MORE

There is a video folks and the Apollo-Starbuck Fan Fiction group is also listed in the links section

The site isn't safe for work... so click carefully... it is naughty...

Source: Battlestar Blog (Thanks)

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UPN recently streamed an episode of its new hit, ``Everybody Hates Chris,'' on Google. The WB offered the opening episode of ``Supernatural'' on Yahoo before the series premiered in September; Showtime did the same with its new series, ``Fat Actress.'' The Sci Fi cable channel has offered complete installments of ``Battlestar Galactica'' on its own Web site. (Read Article)

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA Executive Producer Ronald D. Moore's latest update to his Battlestar Galatica blog at SciFi.Com includes comments on show's lack of technobabble, the final three episodes of the season and more. Here is a few excerpt.

Find the full article here: http://blog.scifi.com/battlestar/

Source: TrekWeb

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Last Saturday at Galactica One, fans had a chance to post their questions to Tahmoh in an online chat. A transcript of the chat has now been posted. A lot of interesting questions were asked. Here are a couple (the rest are behind the spoiler cut): What do you think Helo's pre-mini relationship with Kara was like?

Read the full blog here: Full Story

Source: All About Tahmoh Penikett blog

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News from Australia: There are new Lucy Lawless Video Clips of Ray Bradbury Theatre available from our buddies down-under at AUSXIP Lucy Lawless website. The video clips were contributed by Angie

There is also new Lucy pictures update and Lucy Lawless Vampire Bats promo pictures update as well.

Check them out here:AUSXIP Lucy Lawless fansite

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It's not professional, but it is fun. We added the theme music and the pictures we liked, used Adobe Photoshop to add some words to a couple pictures and produced a five minute screensaver, sort of synced to the music that loops.

Download your self-extracting copy here:
Battlestar Screensaver with music

Battlestar Screensaver without music

Both are self-extracting and will drop a shortcut on your desktop. We made it using the Easy Screensaver software below. It was a lot of fun, and added a new dimension to my work madness. Now they watch my screensaver, which will of course change frequently.

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Take advantage of our free promotion and learn something about Breast Cancer and how knowlege can save your life.

Enter here: Win Battlestar Galactica First Season DVDs

Science Fiction Buzz is running a raffle/contest to win either the Stargate Atlantis Season One DVD set or the Battlestar Galactica Season One Set to raise awareness about breast cancer and what you can do to protect yourself. October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and the raffle runs the entire month with the winners being chosen on October 31, 2005. It's free to enter, and everyone who enters receives our weekly eNew/eZine filled with news about Battlestar Galactica, Stargate Atlantis, SG-1 and all the other worlds that make up the science fiction genre.

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UPDATE: Each Round round ends on
Saturday, @ 11:59 p.m.
Each week a different character will be highlighted. Write a Battlestar Galactica drabble/ficlet using that character to around 499 words. If you run over it's okay, but don't send us a novel. There will be individualized banners for every winner. It will continue this time until Saturday night, October 22, 2005 due to scheduling conflicts. The three characters are: Lee, Kara and Laura Roslin. Excuse the delay in getting this out. However, you have another week to finish this. (Read Article)

A few minor spoilers:
Here are a few small bits of info from the Galactica One convention last weekend

SPOILERS START BELOW. Highlight to see them =================

• Both Helo and Tyrol survive 211. They are rescued by Lee.
  
• Helo is alive up to 215, but after that..............
  
• There will be yet more revelations about new Cylons in the second half of the season. One of the main cast may be one.
  
• All hell breaks loose around 216/217, as the big story arc for the season finale kicks off.
  
• Lucy Lawless will back for more episodes in the latter half of season two
  
• Trek BBS board was the rumour that Dana Delaney has a guest role, possibly in episode 215, playing Sesha.

That's it.

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Source: The Secret Cylon

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Chase to Interview Ronald D. Moore

Star Trek veteran writer/producer Ronald D. Moore will be taking part in a live on-line audio interview with Chase Masterson ("Leeta") at the Sci-fi and pop-culture site TheFandom.com Monday, October 24 at 4:00 p.m. PT / 7:00 p.m. ET. You can participate by following links to the chat from TheFandom.com.

Source: Star Trek.com

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Battlestar Galactica Companion Book
Order Yours Here

Battlestar Galactica is back! The brand new, ‘re-imagined’ version of the cult 1970s series has quickly become the most critically acclaimed SF show on TV, with massive viewing figures to match. With its classy ensemble cast, including Edward James Olmos (Miami Vice) and Mary McDonnell (Dances with Wolves, Independence Day), its cutting edge special effects, superb production design and gritty, adult-oriented scripts, the new Battlestar Galactica is being hailed as both a worthy successor to a classic original, and a stunning piece of television in its own right. Titan Books have been on set from the beginning, and now proudly present the official companion, packed with exclusive interviews, photos, behind the scenes secrets, and a complete episode guide to the mini-series and first season. 160 pages and available now!

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Author: Alan Stanley Blair
Date: 10-20-2005
Source: E-Online!

The following contains MAJOR spoilers for the second half of the season of "Battlestar Galactica."

He faced a difficult task when he re-imagined the classic science fiction series "Battlestar Galactica," but over the course of almost two seasons, Ronald D. Moore has created a critical acclaimed story filled with destruction and despair, according to E Online! But one of the many things that has led to BSG’s success is it’s separation from the Star Trek franchise.

The following contains MAJOR spoilers for the second season of "Battlestar Galactica."

He faced a difficult task when he re-imagined the classic science fiction series “Battlestar Galactica,” but over the course of almost two seasons, Ronald D. Moore has created a critical acclaimed story filled with destruction and despair, according to E Online! But one of the many things that has led to BSG’s success is it’s separation from the Star Trek franchise.

"I did want to stay away from the technobabble that I felt sometimes swamped the characters in Trek, and so I have intentionally avoided discussion of the technical workings of Galactica." Moore said in an interview with the SciFi Channel. "Also, in all honesty, the writing staff often felt that the technological detail of the Enterprise was as limiting on Trek as it was helpful. We'd established so much about the way the engines worked and didn't work that we sometimes found ourselves discarding perfectly good story ideas or scenes because it contradicted some bit of jargon we'd tossed out two seasons before."

Aside from the technology jargon, the main outstanding difference between the two shows is perhaps the sheer level of character-driven stories and the relationships which make up the story. First and foremost is the hinted ‘romance’ between Apollo and Starbuck, something that Moore believes the difficulty is in not being too coy about the situation.

"It’s a really delicate, fine line that you’re trying to walk here, where yeah, you don’t want to just suddenly get them together and now they’re a couple and all the sort of angst and tension is gone, which is what’s drawing people into the relationship," he said. "But at the same time, you don’t want to be coy about it and keep teasing and ‘oh, they almost’ and ‘oh, it’s just so cute,’ because that gets annoying, too. So what I’m trying to do is just sort of be true to who these two characters are. I mean, they are kind of oil and water. They’re very different people who have a strong personal connection and a strong sort of emotional attraction to one another, and a physical attraction, but it’s complicated by a lot of baggage and a lot of stuff, so I think the truth of that relationship is that it will always kind of dance in and dance out.”

But after the shocking events of "Pegasus," the half-season finale, the question on everyone’s lips is, ‘what will happen next?’ It seems that in the second season, the situation will get much more complicated when Apollo starts to become involved in a love triangle with Dualla and Billy, plus Baltar’s affections for the Number Six Cylon (Gina) will continue to progress.

“The second half of the season obviously is going to deal with the cliffhanger where we left off, with Pegasus and Galactica about to do battle,” said Moore. “First episode will deal with that. Then we’re going to do some episodes with, well, one of the characters who’s going to have a major role to play, Lee Adama. He’s going to go on his own emotional journey and eventually find himself.”

"There’s a big Laura episode," he said. "You get to see her life on Caprica before the attack, and you’ll get to meet president Adar, who was the president she worked for when she was the Secretary of Education. And you’ll get to see a glimpse of what her life was like before she found out she got cancer and before the attack."

Moore also commented that there will be a very sinister story revolving around Gaius Balter and his growing affinity for the Cylons as well as some controversial episodes with "hot-button issues" such as abortion.

But one story which will excite all fans is the prospect of a Cylon-oriented episode in which we might finally learn something more about their master plan and their ominous religion.

“That’s sort of a story that’s told primarily from the Cylon’s point of view for the first time,” he said. “Sort of get inside their heads, see what they’re about when they’re not out chasing Galactica. And then we’ve got, of course, a big two-part finale where a lot of things are gonna change, and the show’s gonna sort of make a fairly significant, radical change of direction.”

Reruns of the second season of "Battlestar Galactica" air Friday nights at 10 p.m. ET/PT on the SciFi Channel.

If you haven't been here, make the trip. This is a great website for wallpapers, avatars and artwork for a variety of science fiction genres: Battlestar Galactica, Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, Babylon 5 and more.

Check it out here: http://www.thescifiworld.net/index.htm

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Try it yourself. Like the Battlestar Blog, I, too, am Galen Tyrol. LOL! I guess great minds think alike.

You scored as CPO Galen Tyrol. You never wanted to be a glamourous Viper pilot. You are happy knowing that without you to fix their birds, they cannot fly. You fell in love with the wrong girl, but is that so wrong? Maybe, but you don't really care. CPO Galen Tyrol 81% Col. Saul Tigh 75% Lt. Kara Thrace (Starbuck) 69% Tom Zarek 63% President Laura Roslin 50% Lt. Sharon Valerii (Boomer) 44% Dr Gaius Baltar 38% Capt. Lee Adama (Apollo) 31% Commander William Adama 25% Number 6 25% What New Battlestar Galactica character are you? created with QuizFarm.com

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The question has been asked, the proposal put up on the website. Vote for whether you can write about this plotbunny or not. Check out the story ideas put forth and then vote. This is our Happy Halloween special Dradis 499 Writing Challenge Special. Can it be done? Should it be done? What am I talking about?

Check it out here: Lee Adama as a cylon? Can you write a fan fiction story for this concept?

Free Web poll for your Web site - freepolls.com

If you voted YES above, check off which storyline intrigued you using this link.

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Yup, you can build your own Viper from Legos. We have arrived! He has pictures, and they're not bad.

Here are step-by-step visual instructions for building a Viper out of Legos by Christopher Deck:

Some may know me from many MINI Star Wars models. But today’s post is a little different. I recently watched some classic episodes of Battlestar Galactica, an old SciFi series. I thought I’d give it a try and build some BS Galactica models, which I want to show you here. :-)

Source: Unofficial Battlestar Blog

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Author: Alan Stanley Blair
Date: 10-26-2005
Source: Trek Today

The SciFi Channel may only have shown the first eleven episodes, but the series is almost completed its production cycle, and series creator Ronald D. Moore is both glad to see it finish and overcome with sadness.

"When I was at Trek, and doing 26 hours a year, the end of the season was more an occasion for the bleary-eyed and nearly brain-dead staff to plan their escapes from the Hart Building," said Moore. "It's also a reminder of just how fast this trip is going ... I can't decide if I'm just getting old or if the special quality of this experience is truly making it all seem like it's roaring past me at an impossibly fast pace."

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Lucy Lawless, best known as the star of Xena: Warrior Princess (and for her recent guest starring role on the second season of Battlestar Galactica) remains troubled by a decision she made to leave tourists stranded in Louisiana as Hurricane Katrina made landfall.

The New Zealand native was shooting the TV movie Vampire Bats outside of New Orleans, La., when she was evacuated with the rest of her cast and crew.

She recently told Entertainment Tonight that she regrets not handing the keys to her rental car over to desperate tourists who wanted to leave town.

"There were some tourists who had been dropped off the day before...and they had no supplies.

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