@No name Why do so many type a reply that should be their own comment? I am convinced the world will never know. Seriously? WTAF does your reply add to the OP?

It was clear Baltar was not a victim of the Cylons but clearly a traitor to humanity. I always wondered if he knew that even after accomplishing his goal of beating Adama he'd be executed. I once read that the studios [whichever owns the rights to the franchise] are considering doing a newer version of the series that is different from the reboot is there any new information I can't find anything even concept art is lacking on both versions. Can you also help me possibly on any site that has clear concise photos [for my own personal use] of the studio model? Or is there a detailed CGI model available for download? I don't want to seem annoying so my apologies.

Extremely cocky ?? Lmao. I’d say he sure was. Lol

@@raymondstpaul6474 Yes Baltar was certainly a traitor to humanity.

This is a great scene. I loved that original series. I was 25 when I first saw it.

"It's impossible!" "No. It is a battlestar."

That truly is the best line of the 1978 series, and it's not even close.

I saw this when it first broadcast. I swear there was a shot of that Cylon with his red eye rapidly going left to right after he saw the second battlestar. I remember neighborhood kids commenting about that the day after.

That Cylon clearly had the advanced sarcasm chip fitted.

I watched this show as a kid and this was my all time favorite moment, 'I really think you should..." as the cylon shows a more human turn of phrase.

"We'll tape his favourite shows, he won't miss anything"

Johnny! What do you make of this?

@@clearcreek69 "A hat. A brooch. A pterodactyl..."

Surely you cant be serious.

@@sayhitosteve2785 I am serous. And don't call me Shirley!

Or "we were taking a vote when the ground came up and hit us"

Or "All destroyed? How? We took them by surprise" "Apparently, it was not as big a surprise as we had hoped for"

Baltar: That's impossible. Cylon pilot: No, it really is a Battlestar. 😂

Not sarcastic. Just stating a fact, like any robot would do.

Centurion Montoya, correcting what Baltar thinks "impossible" means.

"Sir. If I may." "You really should take a look at the other Battle Star." The voice synthesizer made it more dramatic.

Then drop back. Let the other two base ships intercept the Pegasus. I'm not sure the other base ship commanders will appreciate that.

In original Language its so much funnier than in German XD

The Cylon should do stand up. It might actually be funny.

There wasn’t many lines like that. Especially with a serious tone

I agree

... And here I was going to comment that this might be the best line(s) in all of BG :)

Shades of Dr. McCoy from Star Trek VI.

They were probably also thinking, " oh s@#t!

You should look up Gary the Cylon remake of this scene.

@@rizon72 Ok, I will try to when I get a chance. Thank you.

Did he ever pick a good day to stop sniffing glue, though?

@@williamhaynes4800 William. I am unsure of the casting director's personal history. Thank you.

@@byronharano2391 That's a reference to another classic Lloyd Bridges role, not a dig at the casting director. Search for 'glue sniffing airplane' to learn more.

@@markwells3289 ah....okay okay. Sorry. Kinda like "break your leg" is a positive in the entertainment business. Sorry please forgive me Mark. I appreciate the education by you. Makes sense! Aloha my Battlestar Galatica friend

@@byronharano2391 What about "macho grande"? You think he's over that?

Captain Kor, and Baltar.

His reprisal of Kor in DS9 was a welcome return.

he played a bad guyand mob lord so well. He was in several episodes of Mannix I believe.

He was amazing. I remember him voicing Apocalypse on the X-Men animated series.

@@dirdib69 HE was Apocalypse? I guess I didn't recognize his voice due to the distortion filter they used.

Cylon's do have a sense of humor!

It somewhat reminds me of the battle droids oftentimes popping jokes in *_Star Wars: The Clone Wars_* tbh.

I suspect the droids from STAR WARS CLONE WARS copied the cylon humor.

I know about first Battlestar, what about second Battlestar?

Even original series centurions had a sense of humor.

Oh yeah, it was required viewing at the time as we waited for more Star Wars :D I'll never forget Jimmy Carter interrupting the 3-hour Galactica premiere for a lame speech...

I remember exactly where I was when I saw that episode. My Father likef Galactica too, so I was able to see it at his house.

It’s the one scene I still remember.

I remember watching this show as a kid and my parents rolling their eyes and thinking their son was a moron for enjoying this. 40 years later I can see why they were rolling....but I still don't care.

​@@saffmichael4369 Why? It was excellent TV back then - excellent today. The story of the Galactica is pretty darn plausible in my book.

Remember the gold colored cylon centurion's? Their voices were a lower note. They were higher ranking than the silver centurion's.

Don't worry they were referenced during the first Cylon War. Even had a few Cameos.

​@J C sorry jc the new one came out before the woke revolution. New one is way better

@@JC-jk3kl THAT BLONDE IS THE SHIT

Original Cylons and Sleestak, they were actually scary as a kid.

This was just Balthar. Or, Count Balthar. Gaius was the new version on SyFy.

@@Journeyman.71 oh now that I didn't know, many thanks.

Yeah, I guess Cylon fighters don't have scanners? 😂

Oh give it a rest man. That technology would only be about 500 years ahead of ours so do you really expect something as extravagant in their electronics as SENSORY DEVICES to WARN THEM of that kind of danger?

But windows are structural weaknesses...the toasters shouldn't be using them. Geth officially smarter than the Cylons.

@@Zurround given I can find that very tech on cheap cars? Well yeah you would think 500 years should be sufficient time to see it in most moving objects

The Cylon picked up his visual scanners. 🧐

Wouldn't all the Cylons be equally good pilots. It's not like one Cylon is Joe Schmoe and the other is Pappy Boyington

At least he didn't get the Red Eye of Death. 😉😷

He was so close to Bluesceening (Redeyeing....?)

Yes, the way he smiles while wearing the helmet, it's an unforgettable scene, I remember it very clearly when it was first broadcast!!

he also played Kor, the aging Klingon legend, many years later on Startrek DS9.

He also played Kor before Glactica on TOS.

He was terrific as "The Governor" in "The Starlost".

But VERY under appreciated!

Yes fun

you never hear or see the Battle star with your name on it!

To be fair if I'm stuck in the cockpit with the cockiest ego tripping boss I have ever seen I would rather just have a battlestar ram us. At least that will shut him up.

​@@zchen27Right! I may die but at least I won't have to listen to him prattle on anymore!

Yes, I liked him too as a villain - the Colicos Baltar was truly a villain you loved to hate. I never liked the re-imagined version, who was just a neurotic mess as far as I am concerned.

Never seen it myself. I might check it out someday.

Would have been better if he was forced to use a pot

I am willing to guess that 10 years from now people will see the CGI cyclons on the new BG and laugh.

I think he probably meant it to be deadpan.

That freaky helmet was just ridiculous and ill-fitting, cock-eyed crooked sitting on his head! 😄

​@@matthewcaughey8898 not sure it would've been better - but undoubtedly hilarious!

This kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rZ5mpdKl1ba5YYU.html

Colicos was magnificent in whatever he did. His reprisal of his classic Star Trek role of the Klingon Kor on Deep Space 9 was some of the shows best moments.

I would love to have seen a real continuation of the original series. Not Galactica 1980, but a REAL continuation. I remember a comic series bringing the original crew all the way to earth (utterly disregarding 1980.) I wish I still had those comic books.

@@andrewtaylor940 I don't know if you're an old fart like me or not, but John Colicos also played Klingon Commander Kor in the original 1960's series episode "Errand of Mercy" going up against the man, the myth, the legend, Captain James T. Kirk himself!

I think what made it a "cliffhanger" was that the Galactica was SUPPOSED to be the LAST and only remaining Battlestar. Damn, Battlestar Galactica sounds so damned cool, the way it rolls off of the tongue. In the original mythos there were 120 Battlestars and I wonder if a bunch of executives in the board room were one at a time practicing phrasing "Battlestar Orion" then "Battlestar Atlantis" and then"Battlestar Epsilon" etc and having to FIGURE OUT which one of the Battlestars had the coolest sounding name until they finally decided on the Galactica. The characters IN the story, both human and Cylon AND the people WATCHING THE SHOW all thought there were no other Battlestars left. Even the SCRIPT WRITERS probably thought that then decided it would be cool to introduce another Battlestar so in order to avoid continuity errors there had to be a back story that established that they were wrong to assume it had been destroyed and a reason why it took so long to reunite with the other surviving Battlestar. If the mythos had not made such a big deal about the Galactica being the ONLY remaining Battlestar then it would not have been as big a deal

@@r.michaelmclellan6286 I remember that episode, but in my opinion, the best Deep Space 9 Colicos episode was when he, Michael Ansara, and William Campbell; all reprised their roles of Kor, Kang, and Koloth in _Blood Oath_ it was a shame the other two didn't want to continue doing the series after that. Might have been the stress of having to do all that new make-up.

Indeed it was a great reaction because he'd thought that All of the Battlestars had been eliminated

Yep. It's at the start of the 2nd part; the Cylon looks to the left and has a "Oh, sh-t" moment before speaking to Baltar.

@@dhunter1133 Ah, that's where it was, all this time I thought it was in Part 1

Someone did some funky editing

@@transitfan954 - I managed to find it: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/a9aWfcR13KidfWQ.html

The way he smiles while wearing the helmet, it's really awesome!

It was a good try, but nothing can contain Baltar's ego.

The helmet actually makes baltar look sinister..

Well, Baltar was, for all intents and purposes, a Cylon by that time. Fitting he would look like one of them.

I would love to have that Helmet.

Same. I loved the reimagined version from the 2000's, but this is the Battlestar Galactica I grew up on.

@@christophermaxton7317 Nice to see someone shares the same like I have. Good old childhood memories!

Another great late 1970s ship design was how the Enterprise was "upgraded" in its look compared to the original Star Trek. The first Star Trek movie was filmed in 1979.

I just posted about the very same thing :D Dude literally LOST HIS HEAD.

@@kirk1968 in the book, and I believe it was mentioned in the TV series, Baltars' head WAS removed from his body, but then the Leader had the head grafted onto his body so he could better understand Humans. It's never really shown, in the TV series, that Cylons; like Daleks; are actually cyborgs, not robots.

@@TheGrumpy01 Great info! I remember reading the book back then, but not that particular detail. The reboot series really fleshed that out, so to speak.

@@TheGrumpy01 In the movie. Baltar was killed. But in the series. He was saved at the last second.

@@TheGrumpy01 There is one monologue by Adama where he is telling of the Cylon past, and they are robots, not cyborgs who rebelled against their creators, the Cylon race. This is the one aspect of the original BSG universe that I love. Humanity is fighting against another race's problem, not their own. I always thought that was very unique and when the new series didn't have that I lost interest.

They should have given him a few two-liners in iambic pentameter, the way they did with the Baron Harkonnen in the Dune and Children of Dune miniseries ...Knowing what I do about Mr. Colicos, he'd most certainly have liked that.😁

@@christianealshut1123 I also like some from Star Trek he played the Klingon Warrior Kor he was an amazing actor even in his golden retirement years his performances are still memorable and Unforgettable

He reminded me more of Dr. Smith from Lost In Space than Shakespeare tbh.

@@donpietruk1517That’s Lucifer. Always great to see Baltar and Lucifer together.

So true! Right there with you. I was 10 or 11 at the time.

For its time, I imagine that this show was ridiculously expensive to produce.

@@BitsofRealPanther I think it was about $1M per episode, if I remember correctly.

Yes. When reading GALACTICA comic book stories the last three decades it’s impossible not to hear John Colicos, Lorne Greene, everyone’s voices

looked like the cylon pooped a hard drive,,,,,,

Cylon humor at its driest. Brilliant!

I've always considered that a good, "OH, _S**T!"_ look. (Or should it be, "Oh, _FRAK!!"_ Or maybe, "Oh, _FELGERCARB!!"_ )

It's almost as if some other franchise put explosive charges in their consoles... 🤔 Hmmmm... you might be on to something here 🌞

But that “other franchise” has been going strong since the 60’s. Where is Battlestar Galactica now? I have heard whispered rumors of another reboot. How many times can you tell the same story?

Yep you don't see exploding rocks on the bridge.

@@alienlife7754 Not another reboot. A new series in the 2003 reboot universe. And the point about the dumbass exploding consoles still stands.

It also helps that Battlestars are equipped with fire extinguishers.

The original series was fun and campy, and therefore unrealistic. The remake was very realistic, and therefore dark, dreary and depressing. It was undeniably very well done, but I don't find dark, dreary and depressing to be entertaining, so I didn't watch more than three or four episodes in the entire run.

I way prefer the charisma of the original Starbuck and Apollo actors. Call me sexist all you want but Dirk Benedict was way cooler than that blonde lady. I also prefer the more "old school" effects to the cartoonish CGI. CGI is over relied on. And Richard Hatch was way more handsome than that generic actor who was the new Apollo.

Same. I watched reruns of the original as a kid in the 80s and loved every second. I enjoyed the remake for what it was, but the original was more hopeful and positive.

Humans flew another Raider when Starbuck and Apollo stole one in a different episode and they were almost destroyed by "friendly fire" but luckily Commander Tie (forgot the name, the African American actor) figured out it was them. Thing is, Cylons are ROBOTS so they do not need AIR TO BREATHE but somehow when a human gets into one of the raiders there is LIFE SUPPORT to keep them alive? For Baltar it makes sense, as he was their leader on that mission they would have made ADJUSTMENTS to the ship to keep him alive but the ship Star Buck and Apollo Stole? Pretty damned convenient that it was fully of BREATHABLE AIR and life support systems.....

That was Balters ship from the two part episode "War of the Gods".

Looks like I picked a bad day to stop sniffing glue!

But that’s not important right now!

"Mandelbaum! Mandelbaum!"

Watch it man! Remember, ever since Normandy this(his forehead) is Corning Ware! My skins made of asbestos. Tanning parlor accident, Dien Bien Phu! Tug Benson at his funniest!

"My eyes are ceramic." -- Lloyd Bridges

I liked that, too. Also when the Cylon in the episode where Starbuck crashes on the planet where the kids are waging a guerilla war. They attack the fortress and the Cylon goes, "What now!"

second best. best was when they picked up the Pegasus on scanners.

Baltar's motives in the original series were always a bit unclear.

'Cause in the original series, Baltar is a moron.

@@michaelbruvolt4221 both Baltar's are morons

@@ScaryBaldMan no it's not unclear baltar thought he could rise to power inside the Cylon Empire I should know I watched the original TV show it aired on TV

In the original movie, Baltar was killed. There are some fantastic outtakes here on KZfaq that show just exactly why and how it happened. When it went to television, Baltar was brought back simply because he's such an awesome villain. In the television remake Baltar was a good villain, though in the original he was much better.

I thought I recognised that voice