Saga of a Star World
| "Saga of a Star World (aka Battlestar Galactica)" |
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|---|---|
| Battlestar Galactica (1978) episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 1 Episode 1–3 |
| Directed by |
Richard A. Colla Alan Levi (uncredited) |
| Written by | Glen A. Larson |
| Original air date | September 17, 1978 (edited theatrical version released in cinemas in July 1978 (Canada, Australia & most of Europe) & May 18, 1979 (U.S.)) |
| Guest appearance(s) | |
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Lew Ayres as President Adar |
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Lew Ayres as President Adar
Wilfrid Hyde-White as Sire Anton
Ray Milland as Sire Uri
Jane Seymour as Serina
Rick Springfield as Zac
"Saga of a Star World" (or "Battlestar Galactica") is the pilot for the American science fiction television series of Battlestar Galactica which was produced in 1978 by Glen A. Larson. A re-edit of the episode was released theatrically as Battlestar Galactica in Canada, Australia and some countries in Europe and Latin America before the television series aired in the U.S., in order to help recoup its high production costs. Later, in May 1979, the feature-film edit was also released in the U.S. (see below)
Battlestar Galactica is set in a distant star system, in an age described as "the seventh millennium of time." Twelve colonies of humans, living on different worlds, have been fighting a 1,000 year war against the robotic race of Cylons, who seek to exterminate all of humanity. The Cylons have unexpectedly sued for peace, through the diplomatic agency of a human, Count Baltar. The human leaders, called the Council of the Twelve (with one representative from each colony), and the commanders of their military fleet are all too pleased by the Cylon offer of peace, which ends so many years of warfare. The powerful "Battlestars" are assembled for armistice talks with Humanity's age-old robotic enemy. But it's all a deception – Baltar has betrayed humanity for personal gain, and the Cylons have no intention of making peace.
Only Commander Adama, of the battlestar Galactica, suspects that the Cylons are planning a trap, and orders a recon patrol, consisting of his two best pilots: his eldest son, Apollo, and Lt. Starbuck. Adama's younger son, Zac, convinces Starbuck to let him go in his place. The patrol discovers a vast Cylon armada waiting in ambush behind a moon named Cimtar, but the Cylons jam their communications. Cylon fighters pursue the two Vipers, and Zac's fighter is hit. This forces Apollo to leave him behind, so that the fleet can be warned. Zac's Viper is destroyed by the Cylons just before he reaches the fleet.
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