Unofficial Battlestar Galactica Blog

New BSG icon set

Galacticaa.net has found a new set of icons for BSG. It's a high quality set from the Icon Factory:

Corey Marion at the Iconfactory has just uploaded a second batch of Galactica icons. (View the first batch.)

The new set includes 128 x 128 pixel renderings of Adama’s lighter, a Pegasus patch, pyramid ball, med kit, and three icons with cut corners: document, folder, and Galactica logs icons.

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Sky One BSG sponsorship document

Chris Howell of The Great Link sent along this interesting link:

The Sky Media Sponsorship document for Season 2 of Battlestar Galactica (due
to receive its UK premiere on Sky One early next year) is now online at:

http://www.skymedia.co.uk/pages/sponsorship-opportunities-skyone-battlestargalacticaseries2

If anything, it is an interesting look into the "behind-the-scenes" of television advertising. The document is a Word Doc. I particularly like this "benefit" of advertising with BSG:

Opportunity to communicate with a younger group of viewers, averaging higher disposable income than their terrestrial counterparts.

Terrestrial counterparts? As opposed to non-terrestrial ones?

Season three of BSG is in the works?

BSG News is reporting that TV Week is reporting that a third season of BSG has been reported!

Though it will come as a surprise to no one, Sci Fi Channel is readying a third season of its grim space opera "Battlestar Galactica." The series fell off somewhat during its second season-dropping from an average of 1.7 million 18- to 49-year-old viewers last year to 1.5 million. But the program still helped lead Sci Fi to consistent Friday night victories over all of basic cable, besting runners-up TNT, USA Network and Spike. Sci Fi had no comment as the renewal deal was still being finalized.

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Apollo is a Cylon fiction challenge

If you are into the BSG fan fiction scene, head over to Science Fiction Buzz and cast your vote in the "Apollo is a Cylon" challenge!

Cast your vote

UPDATE 11/06/2005 3:47pm CST

It looks like enough people voted and the contest is a go! Head over to Science Fiction Buzz and check out the "Apollo is a Cylon" challenge guidelines at http://www.sciencefictionbuzz.com/dradis.html

Build your own Lego Viper

Here are some 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.

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Tahmoh is knighted a Jedi

The Tahmoh Penikett blog has a humorous post about the legendary Jedi Master Chef's... it looks like Tahmoh (Helo) is know a member!

While at Galactica One, Tahmoh earned the rank of "Jedi Master Chef," resulting in fairly hilarious photos. If you're wondering what a Jedi Chef is I recommend you visit their webpage.

Tahmoh is apparently "Jedi Master Chef 44" according to their listing of celebrity chefs (who include Jamie Bamber, Aaron Douglas, Sam Witwer and a bunch of Firefly and Stargate folks).

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Random! This is the best photo!

I find it intriguing that there are no Star Wars actors who are Jedi chefs... somehow that is just wrong.

Battlestar Galactica illustrates a "hard takeoff"

I have mentioned Vernor Vinge on this blog before in discussing the concept of a singularity. I was happy to hear Battlestar Galactica get a mention in the Q&A section of Vinge's keynote at the Accelerating Change conference. You can listen to the keynote via IT Conversations:

The idea that a superhuman machine intelligence could be created within our lifetimes is one that captures the imaginations and fears of many. How can we plan for something which, by definition, changes the world in unimaginable ways? Vernor Vinge is the popularizer of the term "Singularity" to describe the point at which technological progress advances so much that we cannot predict anything beyond that point. In this address from Accelerating Change 2005, he discusses how we could prepare for this type of event. [Accelerating Change audio from IT Conversations]

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The context of the discussion centers around the different ways of reaching a singularity. In one method, it happens gradually. This is a "soft takeoff". The other way is one that happens quickly, in a matter of days or hours... this is called a "hard takeoff". If you look at Battlestar Galactica, it can essentially be described as a hard launch because one moment the world is one way, and a few moments later, the entire paradigm of existence is twisted on it's head. Sure, the "post-singularity" existence of the humans in BSG does not really represent the traditional transcendent existence that are typically expected of a singularity, but the metaphor is close enough for the sake of Vinge's keynote discussion.

If you are at all a fan of science fiction (primarily Vinge's work) and are into the concepts of the human singularity, definitely give this a listen.

Oh... and did I mention they say "Battlestar Galactica" at the end? :)

Interview with Michael Hogan

Chris Howell from The Great Link sent along this bit of news:

An interview with actor Michael Hogan (Battlestar Galactica’s Colonel Tigh) can be located in [TV Zone Magazine]. Here’s a few snippets from the full interview:

"When the original Galactica series was on TV I was aware of it but never watched it. So when casting began for the mini-series I had no opinion about it one way or the other. In fact, I passed on it the first time around because I was busy working on something else. However, that was before I found out that [Michael Rymer was directing the mini-series]. I also heard that Edward James Olmos was playing Commander William Adama. His resume speaks for itself. I mean, Eddie doesn’t have to do anything he doesn’t want to, so I figured if he was involved then this had to be good."

"...['33'] was a pretty amazing episode to start Season 1 with. During the cast’s first read-through of the script, Eddie said ‘This sleep deprivation is serious stuff; we have to work on it’. We had doctors come on set to speak with us, and we did our research...the writing just kept getting better and better [in Season 1]. Some of the greatest TV ever done is, in my view, ['Kobol’s Last Gleaming, Parts 1 & 2'], it blew my mind when I read those scripts."

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Thanks Chris!

BSG Event updates

Galacticaa.net has made some updates to the Eventful calendar for BSG:

I’ve made a number of updates to the Battlestar Galactica events calendar on Eventful. (It also shows up in the sidebar on the right of this page.)

Mostly, future appearances by members of the BSG cast and crew. Creation Entertainment’s Grand Slam XVI summit, Timeless Destinations 2006, and next year’s official BSG Convention.

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BSG quizzes can be fun

Who am i?

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		63%
Dr Gaius Baltar		56%
Capt. Lee Adama (Apollo)		56%
Commander William Adama		50%
Lt. Sharon Valerii (Boomer)		38%
Tom Zarek		38%
Number 6		31%
President Laura Roslin		25%
Col. Saul Tigh		19%
Lt. Kara Thrace (Starbuck)		6%

What New Battlestar Galactica character are you?
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