# How Battlestar Galactica should have ended

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-battlestar-galactica-should-have-ended/490434>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 23, 2009, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-battlestar-galactica-should-have-ended/490434 "2009-03-23T05:20:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2013, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-battlestar-galactica-should-have-ended/490434/61 "2013-02-05T10:17:57Z")

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> [@msmith537](#):
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> …  
> The “It Was All A Dream / VR” Ending:  
> Starbuck sees her body on Earth I and wakes up screaming in the holding cell on New Caprica…or the hospital on Old Caprica…or on planet she crashed on in Season 1…or a base star somewhere…or at wherever point you want the series to have stopped.  
> …

Close.

Over breakfast at Southfork, JR Ewing explains the strange dream he had last night.

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**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2013, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-battlestar-galactica-should-have-ended/490434/62 "2013-02-05T13:36:27Z")

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Ok, if we’re doing _silly_ endings:

The whole series is just a lead-in to **Caprica** , and we find out it’s just a MMORPG being played with the Holobands. In fact inventor Daniel Graystone deliberately models his experimental robot after the fictional Cylons.

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**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2013, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-battlestar-galactica-should-have-ended/490434/63 "2013-02-05T13:51:51Z")

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> [@Lumpy](#):
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> The whole series is just a lead-in to **Caprica** ,

Nah, Caprica was “Battlestar Galactica: The Search for More Money.”

🙂

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**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2013, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-battlestar-galactica-should-have-ended/490434/64 "2013-02-05T13:57:15Z")

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The _original_ Starbuck(Dirk Benedict) wakes up in bed and says, “Athena, I just had the strangest dream where I was a woman…”

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**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2013, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-battlestar-galactica-should-have-ended/490434/65 "2013-02-05T14:12:47Z")

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> [@Czarcasm](#):
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> The _original_ Starbuck(Dirk Benedict) wakes up in bed and says, “Athena, I just had the strangest dream where I was a woman…”

Very good! 🙂

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