Ok, first of all, it’s old. This series has been around for a while (started at 1978, then come the 2003 miniseries reimagining the 1978 original series, then continued to TV series since 2004), and it still on-going, but hey, good series are always enjoyable :). By the way, this post is about 2003 miniseries continued with the 2004 TV series (now it’s season 4). I don’t know about the original series.

Battlestar Galactica is a science-fiction TV series about the nearly-end human being fighting itself to survival after almost being destroyed by Cylons. Cylons are created by human, to make human life easier, but then the cylons turn against their creator and started a war to destroy human being. The first war (which are not told in the series, by the way) ends with agreement where cylons leave human to build the world of their own. 40 years pass, no-one ever hear from Cylons again, when suddenly they come back, and attempt destroy The Twelve Colonies of man. The war ends bitterly at human side, the twelve colonies were destroyed. One battlestar, Galactica, however were away during the attack, and together with some survived civilian fleet, they started a long journey, running away from the cylons, in search of Earth, a place according to the scriptures, are the place where the thirteenth colonies of human reside.

I have been watching the miniseries, the first season, and half the second season, and this TV series is intoxicating. There are a few reasons to that, at least in my opinion. First, Cylons believe in God (see how interesting that is, how machines believe in God? :D), while human believe in gods (note that it’s plural). Human gods are the Lords of Kobol (Kobol is a planet in the universe believed to be the origin of human being). Meanwhile, Cylon’s God has never been mentioned (at least not until now, the middle of 2nd season). There are twelve colonies of men, but human scriptures tell stories about the thirteenth colony, leaving Kobol long, long, time ago, and find Earth. The ancient name of the colonies were are those we find in the modern zodiacs, namely Aries (Aerilon), Aquarius (Aquaria), Cancer (Canceron), Capricorn (Caprica), Gemini (Gemenon), Leo (Leonis), Libra (Libran), Pisces (Picon), Sagittarius (Sagittaron), Scorpio (Scorpia), Taurus (Tauron), and Virgon (Virgo). The colonies government is a republic, led by a president, and each colony has their representative in The Quorum of Twelve (probably like a house representatives).

This series is written by Ronald D. Moore (who is also the creator of the famous Star Trek series). Highly recommended. By the way, I recommend you start with the 2003 miniseries, then continue towards the 2004 series.