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BATTLESTAR GALATICA has STAR TREK to Thank For "Reinterpretation"

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By TRexx / 21:16, 1 April 2005 / General Genre/SciFi

"BATTLESTAR's timing could not have been more perfect. Shortly after the show premiered in January, STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE was canceled because of poor ratings. But BATTLESTAR producers dismiss talk that BATTLESTAR is the new TREK," writes César G. Soriano for USA Today.

"People have said it will replace the importance and attachment that people had to the TREKs in the past, but I don't want to compare and contrast," says Sci Fi Channel president Bonnie Hammer. "STAR TREK lives in the sci-fi world; BATTLESTAR GALACTICA takes a step outside of it. It's very much grounded on tough issues we deal with today."

Soriano opines that it's because of STAR TREK that producers decided to resurrect BATTLESTAR as a "reinterpretation" rather than a continuation of the original series.

"It would have felt like a hangover from the 1970s," says BATTLESTAR executive producer David Eick, who developed the show with lead writer Ronald D. Moore. "The only reason to do another space opera is if you can go in a different direction than you can do with STAR TREK and all its imitators... Nobody does science fiction better than STAR TREK."

Read the complete article in the TV pages of USA Today.

Wired is calling BATTLESTAR GALACTICA "the best sci-fi TV ever."

'"It's so good," my wife exclaimed as the credits rolled on an encore viewing of the penultimate episode earlier this week. "It's like NEXT GENERATION meets THE WEST WING,"' shines Suneel Ratan. "Stacked up against [Edward James] Olmos' Adama, legendary STAR TREK captains Kirk and Picard come off as even bigger, unbearable, pompous assess than we might have remembered."

Read Ratan's rave at Wired News.



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By: cooper2000 (Odo's file, contact) @ 15:17:04 on Apr 04, 2005

Well, maybe you should check it out.
Truth is, Franchise or not, BSG is still better than Trek has been for years and it has nothing to do whether it is reimagined, it is just solid storytelling and interesting characters not to mention a hard edge. When is the last time you saw that on either Voyager or Enterprise?

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RE: I don't care.... by DS9 Fan @ 20:39:05 on Apr 04

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By: Vash_066 (Odo's file, contact) @ 13:38:10 on Apr 03, 2005

I don't agree with this mentality at all. After watching the First Contact commentary, I have to agree that Star Trek is starting to become trapped in its self. Trying to keep track of 40 years worth of date of when stuff happened must be pretty damn hard for the writers. I can't imagine what it would be like after a few more movies or series. One thing that gets me is how everyone expects the character's to remember the EXACT dates of stuff that for them happened over a 100 years ago. Ask a person in the military today when some of the biggest battles of WW2 happend and most of them won't know. I think it makes it MORE realistic that they get the dates off a little bit. Anyways if the storys were good, the acting good I wouldnt mind a retelling of it at all.

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RE: I don't care.... by DS9 Fan @ 17:21:41 on Apr 03
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