I like this idea but I wondered what others think of it.
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Background Story Idea
Date: 02/16/2003
From: bsgbountyhunter
What if the current script became a backstory to the original? I just read the script for the third time and I figured with a few rewrites this could work. Here is how I would outlay my idea.
Name Changes:
William "Husker" Adama becomes Commander Husker
Gaius Baltar becomes Dr. Gaius
Lee "Apollo Adama becomes Captain Lee
Kara "Starbuck" Thrace becomes Lt. Kara
Sharon "Boomer" Valerii becomes Lt. Sharon
Laura Roslin beomces President Laura
The Battlestar Galactica would be renamed the Battlestar Caprica, just about to be decommissioned on the eve of the Peace Conference with the Cylons.
The Planet Kobol becomes the Planet Caprica.
Armistice Station will be the place where the treaty was supposed to signed between the two warring parties but is attacked by the Cylon raiding party in the script. Part of the overall ambush seen in the original.
While Galactica was making its way back to the Colonies this story is happening simultaneously.
This also creates a reason why the Cylons in the original do not have a cohesive strategy to capture the Galactica because they have two such fleets to deal with splitting the resources.
The script remains intact with just these subtle changes. This explains why the Colonial defenses failed miserably in the original and now creates two fleets looking for Earth. Eventually this fleet will run into the Galactica in the series and we can do reunion show with old and new cast.
I could go more in detail but this is good summary of my idea.
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Pretty good but
Date: 02/16/2003
From: Scooter2K3
Name Changes:
William "Husker" Adama becomes Commander Husker
Gaius Baltar becomes Dr. Gaius
Lee "Apollo Adama becomes Captain Lee
Kara "Starbuck" Thrace becomes Lt. Kara
Sharon "Boomer" Valerii becomes Lt. Sharon
Laura Roslin beomces President Laura
Is a very good start but to set this story in the same time frame as the original pilot wouldn't work in my opinion.
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Not Bad...This could work
Date: 02/16/2003
From: Sept17th1978eightPM
“Brilliant, brilliant if you must have your way Adama”
I'm just reading the "attack" in Moore's script this could really work. The sets and costumes would have to have TOS look and Stu Phillips score.
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That's the main flaw Sept.
Date: 02/16/2003
From: Scooter2K3
Although Stu Philups score would work. The sets and costumes will not. The original series had a look and feel that was dated.
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Star Trek and Star Wars sets a trend
Date: 02/16/2003
From: bsgbountyhunter
Anyone who watches Enterprise would feel that Enterprise is more modern than the TOS but it still exists in the same timeline prior to TOS. Even the Klingons on Enterprise are the modern look.
Same is true with Star Wars where the prequels look more modern than the Original Trilogy.
Costumes and such can have an updated look and I think the fans would accept it as part of the BSG universe. Star Wars and Star Trek's prequels have been accepted by their fandoms so why should it not work here.
Giving an updated look will not invalidate the TOS. It will just be a new interpretation of the story with updated costume. It can work and the story that Ron wrote can work as a strong backstory as to why the Colonies fell so quickly.
As for the music, the music in the modern Trek since TNG is vastly differnt than TOS but yet fans accept it as Trek. So the music being updated will still be BSG.
The most important dynamic is the story and that is what we should keep in mind if it is a backstory to the original. In this way, we could eventually do an episode where the Galactica and the Caprica meet. I know some people will point out the age difference issue as probably being an issue with the two cast co-existing. Actually that is very explainable when one thinks of concept of space travel. Since the fleet of the Caprica is made up of FTL ships and the Galactica fleet is not the variance can work. The closer you are to the speed of light, the slower time moves in your vicinity. If you travelled from here to Alpha Centauri and back to Earth going faster than the speed of light, many more years would have passed on Earth than in your space vehicle. The contance of time can make this happen.
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Interesting idea by a Neo-Galactican
