Battlestar Galactica (télésuite)

Battlestar Galactica is a Télésuite three hours written and produced by Ronald D. Moore and carried out by Michael Rymer. It is the first part of the réinvention of '' Battlestar Galactica '' based on the Televised series Galactica . It was used as pilot episode disguised for the televised series Battlestar Galactica . The first diffusion of the télésuite took place on Sci Fi Chanel with the the United States, beginning on December 8th, 2003 on television. The diffusion of the two episodes was classified with the third rank in terms of audience in the history of the chain.

Summary

The télésuite opens on the following text during a scene where have cylons make their first appearance for forty years on a space station moved away, the Armistice station:

The Man created the Cylons.
They were created to facilitate the life in the 12 colonies.
Then the day came where Cylons decided to kill their maîtres.
After a long bloody fight, an armistice was déclaré.
Cylons left for another world which them appartiendrait.
A distant space station was built where…
Cylons and Humains could maintain the relations diplomatiques.
Each year, the Colonial ones send a officier.
Cylons do not send personne.
Nobody has had any more any news of them for 40 years.

It is revealed there that cylons them acquired the capacity to imitate human form. They destroy the space station.

Surprise attack and destruction of the Twelve human Colonies

Let us cylons return after forty years of absence for to exterminate the human race. They take the Twelve Colonies with deprived by bombarding them all simultaneously using nuclear weapons. The attack makes a success of because the central Ordinateur of defense of the Colonies was infiltrated by a female agent cylon, Numéro Six, which imitates perfectly appearance and the human behavior. Being made sign for the seeking agent of a company of the contracts with defense, she managed to allure a scientist with the service of the soldiers Coloniaux, the Doctor Gaïus Baltar. In exchange of the access to the system of the government, it helps it to write a programme of navigation for the colonial warships, leaving deliberately a Hidden door in the program. Thus, at the time of the attack, Cylons are able to penetrate the avoid-fire of the colonial vessels, decontaminating whole squadrons and sabotaging the system vital of the vessels, which become easy preys.

The survivors organize themselves

Not being in network, the computing systems of the Battlestar '' Galactica '' are thus impossible to sabotage. The vessel-museum is in the course of disarmament when the crew learns the attack and the destruction from the general headquarter and most of the colonial fleet. The commander Adama, senior officer of the Galactica , takes the orders of the fleet with died of the admiral Nagala.

To avoid the forces cylonnes, the Galactica carries out a jump more-rapique-that-the-light (PRL) - an instantaneous teleportation - towards the Ragnar base where it can fill the tank with ammunition.

During this time, the Colonial Conveying 798 , on board of which the Minister for education Laura Roslin is, learns that the town of Caprica was destroyed. When the 42 members of the government who precede it in the order of succession with the presidency are declared died, Roslin lends oath and the Colonial Transporteur 798 becomes the Colonial a . After the attack, the surviving civil vessels turn to Roslin. Doctor Baltar manages to leave Caprica and to join the recomposed fleet.

Having been located by a hunter cylon and fearing an attack, Roslin makes the decision difficult to order with the vessels able to make a jump hyperluminic join the Galactica in Ragnar by giving up the others. Its decision proves justified when cylons them appear shortly after and destroy the arriere-ban of the fleet.

The human ones in the search of a new planet

Roslin convinces Adama that the war is lost. They fall from agreement on the need for forming an escort around the civil fleet and for finding a planet on which to establish a new civilization. Stocks of Ragnar are used for rearming the Galactica and reinflating the fleet. But the vessels cannot carry out a jump made safe from this place, which is surrounded by a radioactive gas cloud. Let us cylons, more vulnerable to radiations, besiege the cloud and wait until the fleet in kind. Adama places the Galactica in first line and covers the fleet against the attacks cylonnes until the civil vessels left the cloud and completed their teleportation towards the Prolmar sector. Then only it joined them.

The losses are numerous. During the funeral ceremony, Adama goes up moral its troops by affirming that he knows the site of mythical the thirteenth colony, the Earth.

Let us cylons are on the point of continuing their plan

In the last scene, Numéro Six informs Baltar that agents cylons, programmed to believe that they are human, perhaps infiltrated the fleet. Adama finds a mysterious message in its cabin, “It does not have there that 12 models of cylons”. On Ragnar, a group of let us cylons release Aaron Doral (guide in the ex-museum Galactica , abandoned after Baltar discovered that it was about a cylon). The last cylon to enter the part is another copy of the lieutenant Sharon Valerii, which implies that lieutenant Valerii who is on board Galactica is in fact a cylonne.

Sources

; American history

the scenario writers incorporated in script a certain number of references to iconic moments of the history of the United States, evoking dark moments in particular where the country believed to come very close to chaos. Thus the scene where Laura Roslin lends oath on board spaceship after the death of president Adar evokes it the oath-taking of Lyndon B. Johnson on board d' Air Force One after the assassination of John F. Kennedy. That where the little girl, Cami, play with her headstock whereas Cylons attack inspires by one of Tony Schwartz diffused during the countryside of Lyndon Johnson in 1964 against her adversary of right-hand side Barry Goldwater, shown to be able to start a nuclear war; the film had made great noise at its time.

the events of the September 11th, 2001 were still obviously in all the spirits when the series was born. The attack concerted on New York and Washington divides with that of cylons the characteristics which had horrified America: “ Americans cuts known surprised attacks -- goal never before one thousands off civilians. All off this was brought upon custom in has individual day ” (“the Americans already knew surprised attacks, but which did not have as a target of the thousands of civilians; and all that fell down on us in the same day. ”). The existence of let us cylons infiltrated in the human society evokes the phenomenon of the dormant cells or the agents door frames.

; World history

Militarily, the way in which the aerospace one protects the civil vessels evokes the Guerres of the French revolution and Napoleonean when the British warships escorted the buildings of the English Compagnie of the Eastern Indies in the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean.

Contrary to America of George Bush, the survivors of the Holocauste cylon cannot allow an offensive campaign against their enemies. The return of the survivors of the twelve colonies towards the mythical planet ground, cradle of humanity, evokes rather the aspiration with the Promised land.

; Mythology

the names of the characters and the toponyms are borrowed from various European mythological sources. The base of Ragnar, for example, car its name of Ragnarök, loan with the Scandinavian mythology of an episode which is articulated on the end of a cycle and the rebirth of a new world.

; The televised series of 1978

the film make several winks with the televised series of 1978, Battlestar Galactica . The visit of the museum makes it possible to see models of cylons going back to 1978. The music diffused during the ceremony where the Galactica is returned to the civil life is that which introduces the episodes of the old series. Finally the speech of Adama quotes pieces of the narration on which the episodes begin from 1978.

Distribution

See too

Battlestar Galactica
Battlestar Galactica (réinvention)
Battlestar Galactica (televised series)
List of the episodes of Battlestar Galactica

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