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.
The miniseries opens with the following text, during a scene in which the Cylons make their first appearance in over forty years at a remote space station, the Armistice station:
It is revealed that the Cylons have gained the ability to mimic the human form. They proceed to destroy the space station.
The Cylons return from their forty-year absence in an attempt to exterminate the human race, beginning with a sudden,...
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