Galatica 1980
by Glen A. Larson
I eagerly awaited the reboot of Battlestar Galactica in 1980, shortly before I
left to join my soon-to-be wife in England. Sadly, the reboot was a disappointment: poor
plots, poor characters, the same few seconds of special effects and explosions endlessly
repeated—and not even Cassiopeia (Laurette Spang, whom I was in love with in 1978) or
Serina (Jane Seymour, whom I am in love with now).
However, I later discovered one redeeming feature: Time travel in Part Three of the 1980 Galactica pilot show, when the warriors follow an evil scientist back to 1944 and foil his plot to give modern technology to the Nazis. I think this was the only hint of time travel in the Galactica franchise, although the same future wife whom I went to meet in 1980 now tells me that this bit of time travel may have planted a seed in writer Donald P. Bellisario for his later series, Quantum Leap.
The great ship Galactica, majestic and loving, strong and protecting, our home for these
many years we endured the wilderness of space. And now we near the end of our journey.
Scouts and electronic surveillance confirm that we have reached our haven, that planet
which is home to our ancestor brothers. Too many of our sons and daughters did not
survive to share the fulfillment of our dream. We can only take comfort and find strength
in that they did not die in vain. We have at last found Earth.
Galatica 1980 by Glen A. Larson (10 February
1980).