Every Battlestar Galactica Series And Movies Ranked Worst To Best

The reimagined mini-series (presented on DVD as a single three-hour movie) brought the camp classic of 1978 crashing into the modern era. The hard-line realistic military aesthetic was both grim and fresh to audiences that remembered the gold flashes and beige sets of yesteryear.

While staying more or less faithful to the events of the original series opening, the new series would include a great deal more politics, human nature and gorgeous visuals. The muted down sound effects, the crisp uniforms, the deeply flawed characters, this mini-series offered a stark and distinct vision of Glen A. Larson's space adventure.

While the aged Battlestar Galactica is in the process of being decommissioned, the Twelve Colonies are caught unawares by a devastating nuclear attack that wipes out untold billions of humans across them. While Commander Adama is determined to re-arm his ship and begin the fight back, he is convinced by the newly-appointed President Laura Roslin that humanity's future lies out there, in the stars. Adama then spins up the old story of the long list thirteenth colony, called Earth, as their eventual goal.