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Galactica -
Mile-wide space cruiser built by the ancestors
of the human race on the sci-fi series BATTLESTAR GALACTICA/ABC/1978-79 and later
GALACTICA.ABC/1980.
Light years across the vastness of space was a
solar system comprised of twelve planets. During
their 7th millennium, these planetary systems
were viciously attacked (while under a flag of
truce) by robot Cylon
Centurian warriors whose
prime directive for more than 1000 years had
been the total annihilation of all humanoid life
forms in their galaxy.
Gathering together the survivors of the
holocaust, Commander Adama, the
leader of the Galactica star cruiser (crew of
500), fled the star system with a rag-tag armada
of 220 spacecraft in search of a planet their
legends called Earth.
"Fleeing from the Cylon tyranny, the last
Battlestar, Galactica leads a rag-tag fugitive
fleet on a lonely quest...a shining planet known
as Earth." -- Commander Adama
The crew and passengers of the Galactica
included:
- Lorne Greene as Commander Adama
- Richard Hatch as Captain Apollo
- Dirk Benedict as Lieutenant Starbuck
- Herb Jefferson Jr. as Lieutenant Boomer
- Maren Jensen as Athena
- Tony Swartz as Sergeant Jolly
- Noah Hathaway as Boxey
- Terry Carter as Colonel Tigh
- Lew Ayres as President Adar
- Laurette Spang as Cassiopeia
- Wilfrid Hyde-White as Sire Anton
- John Fink as Dr. Paye
- Ray Milland as Sire Uri
- Ed Begley Jr. as Ensign Greenbean
- Rick Springfield as Lieutenant Zac
- David Greenan as Bridge Officer
- Anne Lockhart as Lt. Sheba
Crew of the BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
The Galactica's defenses included massive laser
cannons and the Red Squad, a fleet of small
fighter crafts called
Colonial Vipers. Their top
pilots were Captain Apollo; Lt.
Starbuck; and Lt. Boomer.
TRIVIA NOTE:
The six-foot Battlestar model used for the
series was designed by John Dykstra of Star Wars
fame. His company, Industrial Light and Magic
Co., built the large scale models of the
Galactica's flight deck, that included three
million dollars of fully operating computers.
The "Dyskstraflex" camera photographed all of
the flying sequences, which created the sense of
motion by moving itself instead of the model.
See also "Galactica
(2004)"
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