I was thinking that too. But Galactica was an obsolete ship, about to be decomissioned and turned into an educational museum, after that one last ceremonial fly-by from a squadron of Vipers. It might very well just have a skeleton crew aboard, enough to run all the ship’s systems, but not enough to pull shifts and run everything around the clock.
I believe Adama said something to that effect…that there weren’t enough people (crew) on board for shifts. Or he implied it, at least.
They haven’t cured cancer. The President has it.
When I went in for Laser Surgery, I was told that when you get to a certain age, it doesn’t help because your eyes are starting to naturally get worse anyway. Adama is getting up in years, so perhaps he’s past the age that it can help, and since he’s near retirement age, maybe he doesn’t care about the glasses.
As for the e-books, again, Adama seems to perfer everything to be lower tech(remember, they use phones with cords), so having a whole case of books makes a lot of sense.
And again, sometimes you just want to hold something in your hands when you read. Be it a stack of documents rather then a game boy. I love wikipedia as a source, but I frequently print long articles off to read them at my leasure. I use flat-screen moniters all the time, but trying to read too much on the screen causes an “Eye glaze” effect.
And frankly, it looks like they were going for the “Somewhat low-tech” look. Late 20th century warship in Space. A number of clocks in “33” were the old fansioned kind. The ships use missles and projectile weapons(which I rather appreciated. One gets sick of lasers after a while). No shields, big dirty nukes.
It’s basically a mirror of the late 20th/early 21st century in space. Don’t try to look much farther then that. If they were trying to make it HARD SCIFI, space combat wouldn’t have a WW2ish feel to it.
I had forgotton about that. It would also explain why the small arms lockers aren’t guarded either.
I forgot. Good point, well taken.
It’s a thousand years later, Dude.
Low tech is from the Cylon wars of many years ago. The modern ships were defeated because they used computers Baltar’s stuff could flumux.
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And again, sometimes you just want to hold something in your hands when you read.
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Yeah, you and me both, but we are talking a long time later.
Again, that’s because the Cylons (sp) could screw with their computers and Galactica is old stuff about to be retired.
I would hope that its superior ,and from the mini series that I seen , it rocked. But its been over 5 years since midnight on the firing line came out ,and longer since the original babylon five pilot movie came out. Time marches on. Babylon Five proved you did not have to accomodate the lowest common denominator , when you make a sci/fi show.
Battlestar G will get kudos from all sorts of people , but I am confident that its genesis in Babylon 5 is going to be mentioned alot.
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There’s no preference. It’s neccessity. The Cylons knocked out the higher technology.
And what’s this ‘thousands of years in the future’ stuff? There’s no indication in the show - which still refers to the 12 Colonies of Kobol - that it’s changed that aspect of the canon - that Earth is another colony, not their place of origin.
Don’t get me wrong. Bab 5 was a good series, if cheesy sometimes (sweedish meatballs indeed).
This show, from what I’ve seen, just blows it the hell away.
But it’s more or less a justification to make it WW2ish, Late 20th century military in space. They could have made it all shiney and star treky(and maybe the other battlestars are) but
The colonies timeline has nothing to do with our. Earth is a legend and probably doesn’t even exist in the Current BSG universe. There is no foundation for “Thousands of years” in regards to any technology.
But he also refused to upgrade long after the Cylon war had ended. And frankly, there’s really no particular reason to not upgrade the clocks to digital or make the phones cordless.if you’re worried about the cylons,
It seems Adama more or less likes things the old way.
That’s silly. Earth was where they came from in the first series.
Well, I got the impression that the Galactica wasn’t upgraded because a) there were newer Battlestars built, and b) it was peacetime, so keeping the old ships up to date wasn’t as big a deal.
Eh, you might be right, though.
I don’t remember the begining of the first series, but in this one, all the colonies(including “Earth”) were colonized from the home of “Kobol” wherever that is and for whatever reason they left it.
That’s how it was in the first series. The 13 Colonies were colonised from Kobol.
And when the Galactica finally found Earth, it was the year 1980, FTR.
Actually, it was 1969, per the last episode of the original series(unless I remember wrong).
There was no discovery of Earth in 1980.
Okay, I may have been wrong about that.
I was under the impression they were in the Solar System(I remembered seeing Jupitor) when the Apollo 11 footage is seen…but apparetnly that wasn’t the case.
Heh…here I thought you were just denying the existance of Galactica 1980, and was formulating my reply based on that.
Actually, I oriignally did, but then read the FAQ and noticed the possible 11 year transmission time for that signal.
Galactica 1980? What do you mean?
Gods, I’m really enjoying the storytelling value and the philosophical overtones and implications. This is a scifi series for adults, and it’s damn good.
Also, Earth was specifically mentioned as a thirteenth colony in the mini-series. Near the end, at the mass funeral, Adama pretends that directions to Earth have been a closely guarded secret, so that the people have something to live for. He even asks Elosha, the priest, “Don’t the Sacred Scrolls speak ofa thirteenth colony, Earth?” and she confirms it, saying how another group of colonists from Kobol went there. Most folks believe Earth to be a legend, as does Adama himself, but he thinks that believing in, and searching for it, will give purpose to the people’s lives. The President is no fool, and, in a private conversation with Adama, told him why she was sure he was lying, saying “They’ll never forgive you”, but agreed to keep the secret.