Miniseries · Syfy
Battlestar Galactica
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Edward James Olmos
Commander Adama
2 eps
Mary McDonnell
President Laura Roslin
2 eps
Katee Sackhoff
Kara 'Starbuck' Thrace
2 eps
Jamie Bamber
Lee 'Apollo' Adama
2 eps
James Callis
Gaius Baltar
2 eps
Tricia Helfer
Number Six
2 eps
Callum Keith Rennie
Leoben Conoy
2 eps
Grace Park
Lt. Sharon 'Boomer' Valerii
2 eps
Paul Campbell
Billy
2 eps
Aaron Douglas
Crew Chief Tyrol
2 eps
Alessandro Juliani
Felix Gaeta
2 eps
Lymari Nadal
Giana
2 eps
Michael Hogan
Saul Tigh
2 eps
Kandyse McClure
Anastasia Dualla
2 eps
Lorena Gale
Elosha
2 eps
Tahmoh Penikett
Karl 'Helo' Agathon
2 eps
Matthew Bennett
Aaron Doral / Number Five
2 eps
Nicki Clyne
Specialist Cally
2 eps
Connor Widdows
Boxey
2 eps
Alonso Oyarzun
Crewman Specialist Socinus
2 eps
Ty Olsson
Lt. Aaron Kelly
2 eps
Barclay Hope
Transport Pilot
2 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Battlestar Galactica actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Battlestar Galactica reads strongest on Bingeability, Character Depth and Spectacle.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
A re-imagining of the original series in which a "rag-tag fugitive fleet" of the last remnants of mankind flees pursuing robots while simultaneously searching for their true home, Earth.
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.
S01E01
Part 1
In a distant part of the galaxy lie The Twelve Colonies of Man, a civilization that has been at peace for some forty years with an empire of machines, the Cylons, who were created generations before as worker drones for mankind, but became independent, rose in rebellion, and launched war on their masters. Now, the Cylons have evolved into more human form, into machine-created biological beings, who seek to exterminate true biological humans. To this end they use a human scientist, Gaius, to help one of their infiltrators, known as #6, penetrate the Colonies' master ...
S01E02
Part 2
After forty years of armistice, the Cylons attack the Twelve Colonies of Kobol. Their strategy: a virus implanted into mankind's defense system. The former Battlestar Galactica, which is being adapted into a museum, is not connected with the defense system and becomes the only warship capable of fighting against the Cylons in the hopes of leading the survivors to planet 'Earth'.
Recently aired
Latest Episodes
S00E12
Epilogue
S00E11
Visual Effects
S00E09
Production
S00E08
The Doctor Is Out (Of His Mind)
S00E07
Future-Past Technology
S00E06
The Cylon Centurion
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Direction
- Michael RymerDirector
Where to watch
Streaming
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