Battlestar Galactica is a three-hour miniseries written and produced by Ronald D. Moore and directed by Michael Rymer. It was the first part of the Battlestar Galactica reimagining based on the 1978 Battlestar Galactica television series, and served as a backdoor pilot for the 2004 television series. The miniseries originally aired on SyFy (at the time called Sci Fi Channel) in the United States starting on 8 December 2003. The two parts of the m...
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Battlestar Galactica is a three-hour miniseries written and produced by Ronald D. Moore and directed by Michael Rymer. It was the first part of the Battlestar Galactica reimagining based on the 1978 Battlestar Galactica television series, and served as a backdoor pilot for the 2004 television series. The miniseries originally aired on SyFy (at the time called Sci Fi Channel) in the United States starting on 8 December 2003. The two parts of the miniseries earned, respectively, 3.9 and 4.5 million viewers, making the miniseries the third-most-watched program on SyFy ever.
After a 40-year armistice in a war between the Twelve Colonies, the homeworlds populated by humans, and the Cylons, human-created robots, the Cylons launch a surprise attack intended to exterminate the human race. Virtually all of the population of the Twelve Colonies is wiped out. Most of the human defense force is rendered ineffective and destroyed because Number Six, a Cylon android in the form of a human woman,...
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