Battlestar Galactica II (No Joke)

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If I recall a small news article from back in the days..

BattleStar Galactica was one of the most expensive series ever produced, episodes were produced near the cost of the most expensive tv show pilot (about 600,000) known at the time - The Original Star Trek Pilot.
600k x 26 episodes a seasons... Expensive as hell...

But they pulled Ratings both in first airings and syndications.... Networks like that.

but there was a far greater evil... far far greater... and it was from a galaxy far, far, far, very damn far away...

Yes, Mighty Emperor George Lucas felt BSG was a direct rip-off of the Star Wars. And he sued them up one side and down the other with not 10, not 12, but 11 over-payed, high priced, foreign lawyers until the studios questioned the series seriously.

While BSG did eventully win the law battle... changes is the writer staff sent the writing quality to the crapper. Anyone remember the episode where they switch the lines for Apollo and Starbuck so that one could have the funny lines of a change.....

Those things really piss off fans (like in the case of Star Trek TNG & DS9 fans that watched Voyager and Enterprise) and the Ratings dropped and dropped.

Then the execs at the studio said "Kill them all...."

And George Lucas smelled the sweet sent of the burnt remains competition was pleased...

If I recall right, isn't Ron Moore of StarTrek TNG taking over for some of the writing team on the new BSG.

Also, Glen Larson has been fighting the studios for years to let him produce a series of movies. That is way Hatch hasn't got his series yet, Glen as bigger plans....

Now to physics, Star Trek pulled that banking in space crap too during DS9's Dominion War -With a GALAXY CLASS STARSHIP!