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The Other Planets With Human Settlements

posted 8 years ago by dcavalli
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The "Imperious Leader" in "Saga of a Star World" wants to exterminate every human in the universe. His successor wants to pursue a more "tolerant policy" and puts Baltar in charge of finding the Galactica fleet to convey the message. In "Lost Planet of the Gods," the tolerance part is cut from the scene, and Baltar just has to locate the Galactica and destroy the remaining Colonial humans.

The fleet, however, encounters human settlements in "Gun on Ice Planet Zero," "The Lost Warrior," "The Magnificient Warriors," "The Young Lords," and "The Long Patrol." In the latter, it's implied that the population is taken aboard the fleet.

But wouldn't the Cylons be a threat to these human settlements and then, of course, the Terra humans on Paradeen, Lunar 7 (and other sattelites), and Terra itself? (Perhaps the light beings would protect the Terra humans from the Cylons.)

It seems the writers, in the rush to get scripts written, let some details slip by.

Still, a classic series from my youth.

[–] Dark_Sithlord 8 years ago

This has occurred to me as well. In finding these human settlements, the Colonials have led the Cylons to every deposit of humans in that part of the galaxy. Before leaving, you'd think the Colonials would warn the human settlements about the Cylons and how the Cylons might obliterate them.

[–] marknazzaro 7 years ago

In the "living legend" two parter it is explained that the cylons were focused on destroying the galactica above all else. It's also the reason why commander Cain was able to raid the cylon city for food and fuel without much resistance. Maybe once the galactica was out of the way the cylon empire would have focused more on exterminating the smaller human settlements.

[–] spasek 7 years ago

The writers back then let a LOT of details escape them. But television was done very differently back then, and with much less attention to those kinds of details.