10 Most Notorious Battlestar Galactica Urban Legends
4. Has Triad Always Been A Card Game?
Far from being a total revision, Moore & Eick's Battlestar Galactica contains some throwbacks to the original series. One example a card game called Triad, which uses a 55 count deck of hexagonal cards, and Pyramid, a close-quarters sport that is a sort of fusion between football, basketball, and rugby. Starbuck and Anders bond over a game of Pyramid in 'Resistance', the fourth episode of season two.
You would be forgiven for thinking that these are just direct lifts from the 1978 series... except Moore accidently swapped the two around. So in the beginning, Pyramid was in fact the card game and Triad was the sport. The cards used to have pyramids on them, but in the reimagined series these seem to be replaced with stars.
Such is the popularity of both games since Moore & Eick's series was released that it is easy to forget this. Further entrenching the error as fact is the release of Triad playing cards that fans of the show can buy. Pyramid has been recreated by some faithful fans, and rules are available online, but its safe to say that it hasn't taken off in quite the same was as quidditch for example.