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Old April 20th, 2005, 05:20 AM   #20
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Originally Posted by Dawg
But you kind of missed the point with 8. There is no vice-versa. My point was that the names of TOS were supposed to be based on the cultural roots that the Colonies sprang from - and were the same roots as the earliest names of our ancestors, which we recognize from Earth's various mythologies and histories. Apollo. Sheba. Iblis. Even Adama.
Well, what I was trying to point out is that we aren't sure what time frame Battlestar took place in.
While it is possable that the fable they have about the origin of mankind is the truth (we all came from Kobol, some went to Earth from there), it is equally possable that they've gotten their history confused, and millennia before Kobol had been colonised by people from Earth.

While BSG hinted very heavilly at being set in the present-day, nothing on screen excludes the Colonies having been descendants of Earth so far in our future that they've forgotten where they come from.
(And if you exclude "Hand of God", there's no proof they aren't in our distant past either.)

Their names are different from ours, but it's unclear where they are in time relative to us. That's all.
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