"Daybreak" (Parts 1 and 2) are the 21st and 22nd episodes in the fourth season, and the series finale of the reimagined science fiction television series Battlestar Galactica, and are the 74th and 75th episodes overall. The episodes aired on the US Sci Fi Channel and SPACE in Canada respectively on March 13 and March 20, 2009. The second part of the episode was double-length. Both parts were written by Ronald D. Moore, and directed by Michael Rym...
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"Daybreak" (Parts 1 and 2) are the 21st and 22nd episodes in the fourth season, and the series finale of the reimagined science fiction television series Battlestar Galactica, and are the 74th and 75th episodes overall. The episodes aired on the US Sci Fi Channel and SPACE in Canada respectively on March 13 and March 20, 2009. The second part of the episode was double-length. Both parts were written by Ronald D. Moore, and directed by Michael Rymer. The Season 4.5 DVD and BluRay releases feature an extended version of the finale, which not only combines both parts as a single episode, but also integrates it with new scenes not seen in the aired version of either part.
The episodes portray the Galactica launching a rescue mission to retrieve Hera Agathon from the "colony", a heavily armed and defended Cylon base located near a black hole. They manage to rescue Hera, and in the end, the fleet finds a new planet to settle on, which they come to call Earth (revealed to be our Earth). The...
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