New Galactica Series

Captain Kwok · #1 February 6th, 2005, 09:59 PM

I've watched the last few episodes, and it's been decent overall with some good ship scenes. However I can't seem to shake the feeling of Starship Troopers when it comes to the various pilots' storylines etc.

geoschmo · #2 February 7th, 2005, 12:01 PM

Other than the fact that everybodies hometowns got obliterated, I see absolutly no common themes with Starship Troopers. What are you refering to?

Captain Kwok · #3 February 7th, 2005, 03:18 PM

Not that there backstories are the same, but the way they look and act etc.

Starhawk · #4 February 7th, 2005, 03:56 PM

Hey I have a question, if the Viper MK2 is just as good as the Viper Mk 7 why retire the Mark 2? Because from what we've seen the Mk7 is and MK2 are roughly equal in taking on Cylon Fighters.

Oh and is Apollo's Mk7 the last one left on Galactica? Because to be honest I LOVE the mk 7 design.

P.S> Please no spoilers, as I'm in the states we just got "You Can't Go Home Again."

geoschmo · #5 February 7th, 2005, 05:16 PM

My impression from the miniseries was that the Viper VII was faster and more manuverable. So that would explain why they were replacing the Mark II's. Much of the increased performance was computer aided, which turned out to be a huge weakness when the Cylons launched their cyber attack. The surviving Mark VII's on Galactica have been retrofitted to manual controls, which explains why the Mark II's seem to do as well as the Mark VII's in combat now.

Makinus · #6 February 7th, 2005, 05:51 PM

one thing i would wish to know: the MK 7 were disabled by the cylons because of the heavy use of computeers in them or because the software in the computers was holed?

As we see in the miniseries, Dr. Baltar programmed all the computers used by the military, and Six inserted a lot of backdoors in the programs, so if the reason the Cylons disabled the Mk7 was because of the backdoors, maybe they can be still used if someone re-programmed the computers...

bearclaw · #7 February 7th, 2005, 11:12 PM

I seem to recall seeing some Mk 7's during some of the larger fight scenes. I seem to recall from somewhere in one of the episodes that they had retro-retrofitted the remaining Mk 7's so that the cylons couldn't interfere, but the reason there are so many Mk 2's is because Galactica was to become a museum ship and had all remaining Mk 2's transfered to it from the other Battlestars.