Battlestar Commanders?

[KJ]

Battlestar Galactica, the most interesting Sci-fi series to feature a story about a ship and her crew, set in a world or abeit universe where the human race had a spacebourne military outfit that could've enjoyed the same kinda backstory other TV sci-fi have akin to Star Trek, Star Wars, Babylon 5 etc.

Also where season upon season and within the film series of those named, various alternate Commanders of warship/vessels were named or were involved in the subplots of th episode themselves etc. Battlestar Galactica barely got out a few names like Commander Cain and Commander Kronus in a few episodes by comparison. And fan theories on who exactly might have commanded other Battlestars in the Colonial fleet i.e. like Count/Commander Baltar of the "Pacifica"? possibly for example.

Had the series a chance, in what capacity or order of events do you see a show like the classic 78 series of Gaalctica telling the auidences via exposition; who commanded various other Battlestars in the Colonial Forces besides those that were named in the actual series. Within Star Trek, has have the luxury of seeing who was the greatest captain, who was the craziest, who was the best and so on. Same with Star Wars and Commanders of Imperial Stardestroyers etc. Babylon 5 for 5 seasons, set enough of its lexicon, legacy and backstory history on all the elements that make up a great sci-fi series, and gave us a respectable sum of 'Earth Alliance Ship' Captains within its own universe.

What could classic Battlestar offered up?!?

What should it have been able to offer up in the long run had the show gone on and in each season some of the history came up or stories where events of the past were seen in flashbacks or another lost Battlestar showed up? Not something i imagined as a formula wouldn't have been repeated so much after the 'LL' Pegasus episode. Yet still? How does everyone else see this. Of all the existing names in the series etc. Who else would been a Commander set in the BSG universe and what person would they have been in the long run. Televison given us all kinds in shows involving spaceship commanders, but what would BSG truly have given us had the show continued on for 4 or 5 seasons?

Trek and Star Wars fans (who isn't one today?) just don't know how blessed they are, that they live in a world were those franchises thrive so well and they're able to debate their likes so much. Classic BSG, what might've been eh?

Examples...

(from the same youtube user)

Top Ten USS Enterprise Captains

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5PZ3...eature=related

(love the 'music' anybody know it?)

Top Ten Craziest Starfleet Captains

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w628C...eature=related

The Top Twenty Best of Star Trek

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWYum...eature=related

Like Adama, Cain and Kronus. But our sci-fi series could've been so much sweeter, if we had an actual onscreen presence of so many more 'multiple' Battlestar Commanders of these impressive warships, to look back on!

I.E. apart of the TOS BSG lexicon! Giving us and our series, a richer fictional history to enjoy, *sigh* alas no.



What if eh?

KJ

[WarMachine]

Well, that's the trouble with having only one season, unfortunately -- we only get the First Three, and no more, unless the fanbase settles on a "fan canon" story arc.....

....Oh, and do NOT get me started! Since my ol' buddies Cyrus and Siobahn are right up at the top of the list!

[KJ]

Nope, set entirely within the context of the live-action 1978 series. No fanfiction material, comic book or additional works (excluding the original BSG novels which kinda count?), even if one wanted to add characters like 'Commander Magnus' from the video game?!

A re-mastered series might hint upon other Battlestar Commanders in the pilot episode with SE style voiceovers or newly filmed scene/sequences for a brand new remastered HD-BSG series etc. Perhaps Adama like Captain Picard in TNG, might have several models/busts of former Battlestars ships he served on, being added in a remastered series in his quarters via CGI. Or simply have a painting in his room of his old "Cerberus" Commander ('Odysseus') for example?

Perhaps in 'Take The Celestra' for example, during Commander Kronus' award ceremony, have an all-new holographic record of the 'Battle Of Casmaro Archipeligo' via [CGI/model shots] playing out, thus showing more elements of what happened with the ships present at the historical colonial battle. With a sly nod to more of the BSG universe etc and expand on events and any minor dialogue mentioned.

Just something to say that Glen Larson, Leslie Stevens and Richard Colla's vision for Battlestar Galactica was alot deeper than first ever realised. And there was alot more to that universe than one would naturally assume than just being a mere sci-fi show. Its as deep an many others out there on multiple levels, it just wasn't around long enough to closer examine or expand on the elements that did get some screen time or were mentioned off hand.

KJ