Battlestar Galactica: one of television’s greatest space operas that’s anything but goofy

In the midst of a war between humans and robots, an old warship is enlisted to lead the remains of the human race to safety

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Its title may evoke goofy techno-jargon and images of prosthetics-laden extraterrestrials, but one only has to watch the feature-length miniseries that opens Ronald D Moore’s now classic 2003 reimagining of Battlestar Galactica to know that this early-2000s sci-fi epic is anything but goofy.

The 2003 series reworks the basic premise of the original 1978 TV series (and books, comics, video and board games …). In a distant solar system, humans reside on a cluster of planets known as the Twelve Colonies. The action begins with an attack by a long-dormant cyborg race known as the Cylons, and humankind is suddenly driven to near extinction.

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