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Battlestar Galactica (New Series) Episode Guide

SEASON FOUR

(2007 - 2008)

April 3, 2007

Excerpts from Ronald D. Moore Interview: March 26, 2007

What themes can fans expect in season four next year?

Ronald D. Moore: “It's about new alliances and broken alliances among the panoply of our characters within the rag tag fleet and without. Different allegiances in terms of loyalties, relationships broken and some new ones formed. All the pieces line up in different ways than they have heretofore.”

Where do the plans stand for a direct-to-DVD movie that flashes back to tell more of the story of the Pegasus and Admiral Cain (Michelle Forbes)?

Ronald D. Moore: “It's really just a couple of extra episodes for the fourth season that will air earlier than the rest of the season, sometime in the fall. They'll come out on DVD the next day.”

Which cast members are in these two, one-hour extra episodes?

Ronald D. Moore: “The whole cast.”

Why flashbacks?

Ronald D. Moore: “There is a tie from these episodes into the events in season four. ... It's an opportunity to set up something for the fourth season that had not been told to the audience and that the characters themselves hadn't realized, and then go into the fourth season.”

So have you started to formulate an endgame? Last week, Sci Fi Channel announced season four will be 22 hours. Will that be it?

Ronald D. Moore: “We have to know at some point. We're scripting the beginning of season four. I know how many chapters are left in the series and it will come up in this fourth season kind of quickly where we'll have to decide whether this is the last season. The network has made it clear they will take their cues from us if we say we're ready to end the show. [Executive producer] David [Eick] and I have conversations about that and we're pretty close to a decision.”

And you'll have to decide long before the show returns for the fourth season next year, right?

Ronald D. Moore: “The decision has nothing to do with next year's ratings. It's first and foremost a creative decision. ... I have two chapters left in my head and I can see those being of different lengths. ... The question of how many episodes is the best route to get there and deciding how much do we want to go out now and end strong and how much do we want to try to extend it because we all love it and go for another year. It's an emotional/creative conversation that David and I have almost daily as we muddle through it all.”

So you're going to have to decide whether or not to end it in season four or ask for another batch of episodes in which to wrap the story up.

Ronald D. Moore: “I think we would probably not go to them [and ask for more episodes] unless we were pretty sure they would give them to us.”

You can read the entire interview here:

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07085/770732-352.stm

April 3, 2007

Four of the last five unidentified Cylons were revealed to be patriotic Colonials, characters viewers thought were human -- Col. Tigh (Michael Hogan), Chief Tyrol (Aaron Douglas), Anders (Michael Trucco) and presidential aid Tori (Rekha Sharma). And in the final moments, Starbuck (Kara Thrace), recently presumed dead when her Viper shattered into a million pieces, appeared to Apollo (Jamie Bamber), and she seemed to be very much alive. Starbuck said she'd been to Earth -- Galactica's much-sought destination -- and will show them the way.

April 1, 2007

Battlestar Galactica is the working title of an upcoming direct to television film of the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica television series.

Sci Fi Channel confirmed on March 21, 2007 that part of the show's renewal for a fourth season of 22 episodes includes a television film to be released sometime in Autumn of 2007. The film will compose two of the 22 episodes, and will be shown on Sci Fi.

Plot

According to IGN, "the movie will indeed focus on an untold story about the Battlestar Pegasus, and feature Admiral Cain (Michelle Forbes) ... While this story with Cain occurs before she and the Pegasus crew joined up with Galactica, the entire cast of the regular series will appear in the movie, as the Pegasus portion is portrayed via flashbacks".

Ronald D. Moore has stated, "The story will be set on the Battlestar Pegasus and will take place in the past, relative to where we are in Season 3. But the events set up in that story will then pay off in Season 4." He added, "One of the story lines everyone had really liked was the Pegasus story and the character of Admiral Cain, so we decided to go with that." Moore has also said, "We'll try to reassemble most of the Pegasus cast".

At least one entertainment news service has reported that the film will revolve around the Battlestar Pegasus three months after the Cylon attacks.

April 1, 2007

SCI FI Channel confirmed on March 22, 2007 that the show has been renewed for a fourth season of 22 episodes, an increase from the previously announced 13 episodes, which will start about 10 months after Season 3 ended (March 25, 2007). The order includes a two hour presentation of a direct-to-video movie airing in the fourth quarter of 2007. However, Ronald Moore has indicated that this two-hour special will not pick up the plotline from the end of the 3rd season, but will rather go back and tell a story involving the Pegasus. The regular fourth season will air beginning in early 2008. Ronald D. Moore has said that it may be the final season of the show.

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