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Originally Posted by Eric Paddon
Truthfully, I wish that the guidelines for publishing Galactica stories were as easy as it's been for Star Trek TOS over the years. We've seen so many stories, none of which have to conform to a solitary universe of action over the years, and Galactica would lend itself perfectly to that as well (as opposed to Star Wars where everything that gets published has t conform to a single universe) since the beauty of how "Hand Of God" ends is that it's on an open note of upbeat optimism where there are all kinds of directions to go in. Alas, the hang-up would appear to be Universal which came up with strict standards just to let Hatch publish his novels that it would be even more difficult to get the rights to do so today, and even then they would probably not loosen the floodgages to let different authors write their own interpretations of the future.
Galactica has been blest to have the richest level of creative output I've ever seen for any show on the net, and it is indeed unfortunate that we're hindered from increasing awareness of it. Alas, some of that also has to do with the fact that "fanfic" too often receives a negative stigma because there is a bad element of it in so many quarters devoted to the tasteless "slash" genre that ultimately makes many people in general think of fanfic as the outlet for deranged people rather than the kind of amateur creative output where one can find better results than in many "professional" areas just like one can sometimes hear a more gifted musician in their local church than at Carnegie Hall.
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It's B.S. that Universal would even treat their own creation like that!
And even more weird to try and comprehend them for NOT taking advantage of Battlestar Galactica for the past 25 plus years before the new remake series came about. Yeah i do indeed see that Star Trek has more free reign to create stories whereas Star Wars became more restricted overtime (especially when the prequels came into existance?)
But at least they're both considered the biggest science fiction franchises out there and both Paramount and 20th Century Fox took full advantage of what they own in their studios. Same can be said for MGM which own the James Bond 007 and Stargate licenses two of their biggest franchises which also churn out very sellable novels if i'm not mistaken. Stargate even has blatant novel series that follows the continuity of both the TV series and the original movie. And me being a fan of the movie version, i know which ones i have to find? I kinda wish as a B5 fan that Warner Brothers could have done far more to sell Babylon 5 to the public when it was there on TV and cable/satellite when Warners had the chance. But Babylon 5 is big enough and has certainly carved out a nice history of its own to also produce a slew of novels in shops which are there today in many specialist book shops!
And as of today you'll probably have Firefly/Serenity and Star Trek Enterprise putting out novels for sci-fi buffs to lap up. which is all good.
But Battlestar Galactica sure is a wasted opportunity for Universal. And i'm sure even the dumbest executive studio bigwigs in Uni's boardrooms know of that fact by now. They can lie their heads off all they want till they're blue in the face, but surely after the recent DVD sales of the classic series. They must be thinking what they were originally sitting on was a "Goldmine!" that needed to be revived with at least a series of novels if not a new ongoing original TV series.
Fanfics or stories commissioned by Universal and done by professional writers is the route if any future revival doesn't actually happen though.
And yes, i'd hope that such classic Battlestar Galactica tales like War Of The Gods does get that sequel story. It needs to be told, and if a revival of Galactica happened on the big screen, then i'd like to see WOTG be done as the sequel movie a la "Wrath Of Khan" style. Taking an episode(s) from the original TV series and making a multi-million dollar blockbuster out of it!
And as we all know. Movies get expanded novel adaptations. And they lead to others being made down the line.
KJ
