Battlestar Galactica

The new episodes of Battlestar Galactica started this month on the Sci Fi Channel. I am so glad. It continues to be one of the best shows on TV.

The gist of the story is that robots called Cylons are trying to kill off the human race. Some Cylons are duplicates of humans which causes a lot of trouble.

The remaining humans are trying to find the mythical planet Earth whose whereabouts have been lost in the mists of time. James Edward Olmos plays the Captain of the Battlestar and Mary McDonnall plays the President of the federation. They compete for control of the fleet and power.

Aboard the fleet is the universe's brainiest scientist. His mind is not right though. He sees a sexy blonde woman all the time who tells him what to do and claims to be in love with him. No one else sees her because she is a creature of his mind. This woman also makes appearances as a Cylon on other planets.

Lots of love stories, tense spaceship battles and chases, fast moving subplots, and other interesting characters make every episode fascinating.

I like stories about forgetting, memory, and the search for those things lost in the past, a search that may save the human race from total annihilation.

We are living through that story ourselves.