Battlestar Galactica **Spoilers** discussion

[Patroklos]

Hey all,

I had some praise and critisism for the ship architecture on this one.

The Cylons -I love the new Base Star, is is sleak and deadly looking and looks alot better than that gay "calm shell" looking thing. Sot of curious why the Cylons need windows though. It seems that missile weapons used for both the Cylons main ship batteries and their prime fighter/bomber weopons. Their fighters use lasers only in fighrer to fighter combat.

Humans - Galactica puzzles me. It was pretty obvious in the first series that a "Battlestar" was a combo battleship and carrier. It had an impresive array of main gun "laser cannons" and robust carrier deck functions. This time around I am confused. It seems to have an abundace of flak weapons, a nice addition, but nothing else. Granted, in the only batle we have seen the Galactica was outnumbered and wasn't trying to engage the Base Stars, but it it truely lacks a main batrey capable of dueling with a Base Star then the series in dead for me. Also, when the Battlestar was nuked in Part one, it appeard to have shields of some sort looking at he explosion, and also since the Galactica survived.

Since it seems lasers have now been relegated to fighters only, and missiles are now the big thing to use against capital ships, the puny little viper should be rather worthless in this series.

-Pat