Year 2

[jjrakman]

http://cgi.ebay.at/Galactica-Year-2-Concept-Script-RARE_W0QQitemZ8716274040QQcategoryZ11431QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

[Lara]

http://cgi.ebay.at/Galactica-Year-2-Concept-Script-RARE_W0QQitemZ8716274040QQcategoryZ11431QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem


Would make an interesting addition. My germans not good enough to check if any authentication was offered (other than the Larson dedication to Stefan written on the cover)

Cheers,
Lara

[TwoBrainedCylon]

Got it.

Sandy

[jjrakman]

Got it.

Sandy

Well heck, that would be a great thing to upload to your web site as a PDF file.

[Lara]

Well heck, that would be a great thing to upload to your web site as a PDF file.

ohh, yes please.... :) :)

Cheers,
Lara

[TwoBrainedCylon]

... and who the Hell is going to scan it?

Sandy

[Charybdis]

Not sure if this is the same thing, but Susan Paxton does a review of some kind of Year 2 document that surfaced a while ago.

Here is the link to see her version:

http://www.geocities.com/sjpaxton/yeartwo.html

[spcglider]

Yes, I have a copy of that as well.

I bought it (ostensibly) on ebay from Glen Larson's son who was selling off a bunch of Galactica fan club kits at the same time.

Its basically a series revised "bible" for season two including who was getting the axe, how they were going to cut the budget, and ideas for new episodes.

It was probably put together by Glen to try to shore up relationships with the studio and explain how the show WASN'T going to cost a million dollars an episode any more.

If you'd like more details, I'll be glad to re-read it and dish here.

-Gordon

[jjrakman]

... and who the Hell is going to scan it?

Sandy

Uhh...same person who washes your dishes and vacuums your floors?

[mikedx]

Uhh...same person who washes your dishes and vacuums your floors?

Cylons don't wash dishes and vacuum floors. Sometimes they do lawn work. But only in Canada...

You'd think they were ideally suited for scanning though, with that red eye wobbling around.

[TwoBrainedCylon]

Nice idea but I don't forsee having that sort of time since I'm busy washing dishes and doing the floors.

I also don't know if my scanner works anymore.


Sandy

[jjrakman]

I also don't know if my scanner works anymore.

I thought you CG guys used scanners to scan in say, photos of F-16's and the like and used them to "paint" your Vipers and such.

[spcglider]

okay, okay! I'll dig up my copy tonight and see what I can do.

-G

[peter noble]

http://www.cylon.org/bsg/1978-season2-01.html

[spcglider]

Thanks Peter!

You saved me from having to remind myself how bad that all was! :salute:

-Gordon

[Lara]

... and who the Hell is going to scan it?

Sandy

I can't volunteer to do the hack work for you (its a matter of geography :( ) but if I was I'd consider doing it using our our photocopier at work, since it scans documents to pdf and then emails them, so anything loose leaf can be loaded in the top tray (even double sided) and a couple of minutes later a pdf file is sitting in the inbox of my work pc . No page by page turning and field selection.

Mind you, you're still stuffed if its multiple pages in a bound volume :D

Cheers,
Lara

[peter noble]

Here's the full description for Return of the Pegasus:

THE RETURN OF THE PEGASUS

(2 hour opening show)


Lt. Boomer rushes into the bridge with the alarming news that the Cylons are approaching the Galactica in force at such a dizzying rate of speed that there is little time to prepare their defence.

Adama barks orders to his crew and the bridge is alive with red glare; sirens are shrieking; the loud speakers boom commands to man the battle stations.

Starbuck, Apollo and Sheba, dressed in battle gear, enter the launching pad, ready for the counter-offensive. But Starbuck doesn’t feel Sheba should accompany them even though she insists she wouldn’t miss the experience for anything. It is Apollo who feels it is all right for her to go. She grins her thanks at him despite Starbuck’s disapproval.

The battle is raging furiously when the three Vipers head directly for their attackers. Sheba succeeds in knocking out two of the attacking planes, which hurtle through space in flames. Apollo lifts his hand in a gesture of congratulations when he sees to his horror that Sheba has been hit and is careening through space in flames.

Despite his grief, Apollo realises that he and Starbuck and their squadron are in serious trouble. Suddenly they are rescued by Colonial Vipers. The can only be from one ship, the Battlestar Pegasus.

After the fighting, they lead the Pegasus back to the Galactica. Their joy is short-lived. The bridge has been hit and Athena’s entire body is engulfed in flames. While Adama is attempting to put out the fire, his hands are badly burned. Starbuck helps Cassiopeia carry Athena down to surgery. Adama is able to move without assistance.

Cassiopeia packs Athena’s pain-wracked body in a polar-thermal unit, then treats Adama and whispers that medication and painkillers will keep Athena alive, but it will take a miracle of plastic surgery to help her regain her former beauty. As far as her body is concerned, skin grafts may remove part of her problem but she will doubtless be left with scars.

By now the danger from the attackers is over for the time being, but scars have also been left on the psyches of everyone on the Galactica crew. Apollo is consumed with guilt over the death of Sheba, who was just beginning to have more than a casual effect on him and he feels he can never forgive himself for Athena’s injuries. Adama shares his guilt, and has already determined to step down as the executive of the entire fleet. Apollo refuses to take his place – there is a better alternative.

The Pegasus is headed by an officer whom the crew of the Galactica love and respect, Sheba’s father, the legendary Commander Cain (Lloyd Bridges). The fleet is overjoyed at this solution and a true thanksgiving celebration is in order.

Although Apollo accepts Cain as the true Commander of the Pegasus, there is something in his manner, a slightly different intonation of his voice; a subtle suggestion of change in his physical movements which cause Starbuck to wonder if this old warrior is still stable after his ordeals. Why doesn’t he show more grief at the death of his beloved daughter?

His doubts are quickly dispelled by Cain’s executive officer, who is one of the loveliest women Apollo or Starbuck has ever seen. Renata’s manner is warm, almost subservient, and she knows how to make men feel important. In fact, Apollo begins to feel that his one mission in life is to shield her and protect her from any possible harm.

A sometimes heated, but more often playful rivalry breaks out between Starbuck and Apollo over the beautiful girl, Starbuck appears to be losing the conflict and is accused by Apollo of being a poor sport when he begins to find more and more fault with Cain and his ship. In an effort to assuage his suspicions, Starbuck wanders off into the bowels of the huge Battlestar Pegasus. There he discovers a labyrinth of intrigue and strange ‘goings on’ that combines the best of the suspense world from Hitchcock to Coma, as crewmen are mysteriously being transported in and out of a strange series of labs.

Their Starbuck discovers that his worst fears are true. Cain is not only not himself, he is undoubtedly not human, as countless androids, one by one, are being prepared to take the place of crewmen of the Pegasus here within her own walls.

As Starbuck races back to warn Apollo, Apollo is inadvertently telling Renata of Starbuck’s foolish defence mechanism, laying his own failure on the field of love off on weird circumstances aboard her ship. “Where is he now?” she asks. When Apollo tells her the chase is on. Renata moves to an intercom and warns the ship of a deadly intruder. With a mirthless laugh, she admits she is a new species of Cylon, an android, half human, half machine, one of the most deadly creatures in the galaxy. And she and the man they believe to be Commander Cain will conquer and destroy the entire fleet.

Before he realises it, she has a garrotte in her hand and has moved faster than the speed of light into a position behind him. With an equally abrupt karate chop, Apollo cuts the wire in two, injuring his hand, and then disarms her of her laser gun. But, like Rasputin, she refuses to die. Apollo finally gets her into a position where she is temporarily immobilised. Starbuck arrives and decides that the only way they can get rid of her is to cast her out into space. Apollo for one brief instant considers this ‘sour grapes’ and a terrible waste.

Then several android crewmen show up and Starbuck and Apollo have to fight their way hand to hand to the landing bay where they can steal fighter craft and help the Galactica withstand the ultimate test; a battle between two Battlestars, one of them led by the subverted intelligence cells of the legendary Commander Cain.