Battlestar Galactica clips (Apollo underestimates Women Pilots) Lost Planet of The Gods Episode 1

[@chrisstetsko5020]

Now this was the Galactica of my childhood! And Maren Jensen was the first celebrity crush that this 8-year old had at the time.

[@Alaninbroomfield]

Never missed an episode of this when I was in 4th grade. Great show. A little hokey sometimes, but that's part of the formula, much like a Star Wars film.

[@BrotherDerrick3X]

The very first episode of Battlestar Galactica that I saw. I saw it when it first aired in 1978. I had a crush on Deitra (the Black lady Viper pilot).

[@gravis2000]

All those women were beautiful

[@BrotherDerrick3X]

@@gravis2000 they are without question. Just that Deitra was the one who caught my eye.

[@rromero7849]

I had a crush on Athena myself.

[@WalterDWormack214]

Daphne Maxwell Reid, definitely had that effect on a quite a few budding Colonial Viper Pilots! I would've flown her wing anytime! And having her, Athena, and Brie, in a strike group, WOWZERS!

[@BrotherDerrick3X]

@@WalterDWormack214 that's not Daphne Maxwell Reid. That's Sheila Wills (formerly DeWindt).

[@Nine-Signs]

God Bless Richard Hatch. May he rest easy, he was not only an actor on the show but possibly the biggest fan of BSG there ever was and a true lover of Sci-Fi. I know Axanar never panned out how it should have, but the original Kickstarter video where he plays the Klingon leader, man we missed a treat, he was epic. And it was so great to see him brought into the remake of BSG. He was a man who never looked his age for sure. I hope he is having tea with Carl Sagan somewhere out there right now.

[@operasinger2126]

Thanks!

[@battlestarmarc]

Best sci fi series that should have lasted longer. Cylons looked like super machines. Great episode.

[@PhuzzBuzz]

Original BSG was a masterpiece. It was too expensive to create to create (I think over a $1,000,000 an episode) at the time. It took me a while to get into the Ron Moore version but I really enjoyed that too.

[@HighGroundCantina]

Im glad we have both

[@ericmadsen7470]

There will never be another show like this. It may have lasted a season it is still a classic.

[@dlxmarks]

I always forget it was only one season because at least ABC went all in and ordered 24 episodes, far more than most current series seasons. Original BSG covered a lot of story in the time they were allowed.

[@rookiecollins7820]

Just an outstanding TV show this was.

[@ardiekepoo744]

The special effects of the space craft fights are really awesome for a show that was shown on tv and made more than 40 years ago... but it was costly, which was one of the reasons why the show and production was canceled. 🙁

[@kurtb8474]

It was meant to be a mini-series from the beginning. But yes. 1 million per episode which was unheard of in those days.

[@AlphanPeter]

i guess what why the space battle footage was use over and over a lot Budget !!!

[@drmayeda1930]

@@AlphanPeter The laser fire was hand drawn so it was also time consuming. For me, there were too many 2 part shows.

[@331Grabber]

@@drmayeda1930 I thought most of the 2 partners were the better ones.

[@robertnickerson8463]

Watching this on You Tube, does bring back old memories... I enjoyed the Lost Planet of the Gods... I love the story and I remembered, that, watching Battlestar Galactica was the first science fiction show is where, I saw the female pilots fly the Colonial Vipers starfighters in battle....

[@glennclifford80817]

Starbuck: Brie hit the auto control, the auto control!! Rigel (after Brie gets control): Blue Squadron Launched Sir!!

[@robertthomas5736]

Richard Hatch as Apollo, Son of Commander Adama,Leader Of The Battlestar Galactica,Against The Cylons

[@HighGroundCantina]

Truly wonderful in this role

[@ardiekepoo744]

RIL, Richard Hatch... you are now among the stars in the Heavens ❤️

[@bxpress6507]

My childhood right here😎 it was a great time to be👍I recently got the dvd set for just 1978 series..love to hear the commentaries and see behind scenes😁I never knew Muffit was a monkey!

[@lawrencebrenton3365]

If all of you are as big a fan as much as I am of the original... Get out and buy the new Battlestar Galactica Christmas ornament that was just released from Hallmark for Oct. 15, 2023! Relive a little of your childhood memories with this ornament for your tree or your own private collection!

[@Josh_Fredman]

Ooh, this ornament is cute!!

[@oilergreg9368]

Apollo estimates 100% losses!...and refused to leave the worst pilots behind..classic Apollo pessimistic attitudes..great video

[@HighGroundCantina]

Great point about the worst pilots. A viper was erratic during the mission and tipped off The Cylons to Galactica's desperation. Ultimately setting off a chain of events that would get starbuck captured, and Serena K.I.A.

[@BrotherDerrick3X]

My girl Deitra (the Black lady Viper pilot) saved his life.

[@oilergreg9368]

@@BrotherDerrick3X she's awesome!it's a shame they didn't keep the women's fighter squadron and yes i agree she had something special..it would have improved the show to include her in a more prominent role

[@BrotherDerrick3X]

@@oilergreg9368 since they didn't give her a story, I did. I wrote a fanfiction story about Deitra. According to the Battlestar Galactica wiki, she was a shuttle pilot from the Atlantia, and she escaped its destruction. Of course they never put it onscreen.

[@BrotherDerrick3X]

@@oilergreg9368 I had a crush on her since I was 7 years old.

[@marcothorsen950]

Childhood memories. Just loved the show ❤❤❤❤

[@scallops57]

Don't forget that was Jane Seymour there. This was the best sci-fi tv show ever. Everything worked to make this show so good and it only lasted a few yrs. Stargate SG-1 probably is right up there but the last few seasons were not as good after season 7.

[@drmayeda1930]

This battlestar Galactica was only good for one season then they got a major overhaul and Commander Adama took a big hit.

[@xavierpaul49]

I wish she had stayed. She’s was my favorite. She still looks beautiful

[@Rich-hm9ux]

I loved this show when it came out but wow, looking back at it, its so primitive. Good for the time. I just rewatched the 2004 Battle Star Galactica series. That show still hold up! Loved the remake.

[@domtam6571]

Some of the most beautiful women in space I have ever seen. This show never disappointed.

[@HailAnts]

Although I didn't realize it at the time, kinda the whole point of the 'female fighter pilots' episode was to show them off wearing the skimpy 'pressure suits' in an earlier scene!

[@Poizenne]

I wanted to see the men in their pressure suits.

[@BrotherDerrick3X]

My girl Deitra saved Apollo's life.

[@HighGroundCantina]

I need to do a tribute video for Deitra. Writing that down in my notes now

[@BrotherDerrick3X]

@@HighGroundCantina I wanted to do one myself, but I don't know how.

[@BrotherDerrick3X]

@@HighGroundCantina if you go to most Battlestar Galactica 1978 Facebook groups, I'm known as a big fan of Lt Deitra, if not the biggest fan.

[@midnighttornado22]

All those Viper combat and fly-by shots were so badass awesome, as a kid I didn't care all that much that they were overused and recycled. They could've just looped them for the entire episode, and I'd still be like, "Wooo yeahhhh!" 😅

[@donaldmisgen5743]

This is awesome 👍

[@miltonxvb]

Great episode, thiawas my favorite t.v show when I was a child. Please someone can help us to watch a full episode of this great series. That will be fantastic to watch again this film. The world will be happy if someone could upload one chapter on internet. Many thanks highGround Cantina.

[@albertrandall2271]

I have full episodes of the original Battlestar Galactica on my cell phone, I have them on my chrome app.

[@SpockBorg5]

Enjoyed this clip more than entire reboot

[@WalterDWormack214]

The Colonial lasers were the better sounding of the Sci fi weapons.

[@malamuteaerospace6333]

Chaim Weitz as Commander Adama. Man what a great show.

[@operasinger2126]

This was a great series.

[@Ingram091]

It had nothing to do with them being women, it was inexperience he was concerned about. Most of them only were in simulators, never even flying an actual viper yet. They disobeyed orders and flew so erratic that the colons couldn’t program a sequence of intercept. So it was shear blind luck they survived. A luck that wouldn’t likely be repeated. And in the end cause the capture of one of the best pilots the fleet had cause he was protecting the most vulnerable. Without that sacrifice they may well had lost the rookie squadron in entirety.

[@Shutterbug5269]

Apollo never once says its because they're women if I remember the episode correctly.

[@drmayeda1930]

No, he says it's a lack of training. They did lousy in the simulator training. One nearly crashed on launch and they might have had a fatality. I'd need to look but in the novel one woman didn't belong there, she cheated to get in. Even a guy would have been rejected. When the enemy comments on how the Galactica's pilots were flying that gives Apollo a bit of credibility.

[@WalterDWormack214]

No, in the TV episode Apollo doesn't come right out and state that it's because the replacement pilots are female, that he sees them as unqualified. But I watched the episode, and I know that the fact that his wife-to-be, has just "passed her shuttle-pilot 'quals'", was a major factor in his objections to leading those newly minted replacement Viper Pilots, on their first combat mission!

[@drmayeda1930]

@@WalterDWormack214 Adama gave him a way to keep his fiance out of combat but Appollo didn't take it.

[@WalterDWormack214]

@drmayeda1 Apollo didn't want to show 'favoritism'. "If I hold 'one' of them back, I should hold them 'all' back!" Besides, Serina would never let him hear the end of it, if he found a way to 'ground' her, but he let Athena, fly combat.

[@Poizenne]

@@drmayeda1930 Gemmi. She had a crush on Starbuck and was daydreaming when she got hit by a Cylon.

[@jimgilbert9984]

As many times as Starbuck has pulled that reverse thrusters maneuver, you'd think that bit of strategy would penetrate that metal shell around the Cylons' brains and they'd learn to anticipate it. Thank the Lords of Cobol that those computer-brained idiots don't learn very well and are crap at adapting to changing situations. I will always love the original Battlestar Galactica over the remake. The remake had a cool idea with its human-appearing Cylons, but it can't beat the hope and humanity of the original. Plus, the original was more human than the remake because it injected humor into some of its episodes (usually involving Starbuck, of course, but elsewhere, too), whereas the remake was ALWAYS so dark and grim. It made more people care about the characters and what happened to them. Furthermore, the music of the original was better, too. I can easily recall the original's theme, but I draw a blank on that of the remake.

[@HighGroundCantina]

Love that we now see that move homaged in The Mandalorian as well as Top Gun: Maverick

[@cliffcorson4000]

The original was set more towards kids while new is more towards adults. I look at both series in the time and how they looked at the take As a kid watching the original we never looked at things such as how 1 warship was supposed to protect 220 unarmed, overpacked, and slow moving ships. We were mire into the story of traveling across the universe. There was losses on the ahow but not as much times held on to those losses. There was always more vipers -- in spite of there only being 67 recovered (25 of Galactica's) in the original episode. There was a constant influx of new materials easily collected. Even after 2 of 3 agro ships plantings were destroyed, they were able to get new seeds in days and could speed grow from them. In the new series you still see 1 warship protecting a large unarmed fleet -- but they could do jumps to flee. There was materials shortages and breakdowns that showed how on the edge they were. Water and food were in short supply. In old series names were just that names. Starbuck, Apollo, etc. In new series they were the call signs of the pilots. To me that diminished the idea.

[@jkkay477]

@@HighGroundCantina It was in the original 1986 Top Gun as well

[@tommyratcliff2445]

I really enjoyed this episode. I remember thinking it was neat they started using female fighter pilots

[@janetbelanger5757]

Here is an interesting thought. At the of this episode in 1978 women had just started being admitted to the three military academies. I think one year later the first women graduated from the academies.

[@zorantankosic9795]

Najviš volim kadasu ušli u zemljo sa brodom ivozli motor brznom svetlosti

[@darthmike4845]

This my Battlestar not SCFI channel because the Cylons . They act like humans instead of evil robots and they got smart ass opinions.

[@djrommybalibalita5747]

This show was fantastic when it came out. Production costs for this TV show were through the roof. Sadly it didnt survive.

[@HariSeldon913]

4:20 Apollo: I'm going for the launch bay. 1:50 Apollo has a clear shot of the launch bay and doesn't shoot.

[@hot2warm]

Actually, he only had a shot at the runways outside of the launch bay at 1:50. When he attacks it, he approaches from the other direction, which would be firing INTO the launch bay. Watch it a few more times and you''ll see.

[@moretoknowshow1887]

Fracking Frak!

[@josephmurray2587]

Very cool.

[@janetbelanger5757]

Serena to Appolo: when we are on combat missions please address me as Lieutenant Serena. I am a colonial warrior in this situation and rank must be respected at all times.

[@ozgarza7438]

I'm thinking top gun got the hit the breaks idea from this

[@KWY007]

What a difference, in the reimaged 2004 series, Starbucks and half the pilots were female.

[@WalterDWormack214]

For the way Lt. Starbuck shabbily treated Lt. Athena. 'I' for one, would've CHEERFULLY sent a well placed laser-bolt up his exhaust! But the Galactica's "Valkyrie Squadron", really gave a good account of themselves in what was their initial baptism of fire! Well done, WARRIORS! Very Well Done!

[@janetbelanger5757]

It should be noted that were no female warrior pilots. It was only the result of all of the men being sick that the female shuttle pilots were drafted to be combat pilots. Athena was supposed to be a warrior pilot but she was never shown in Viper. Hopefully Brie got better in her aim later on.

[@donpietruk1517]

Athena was originally a flight control officer on Galactica's Bridge. Lt. Sheeba was a Colonial Viper pilot transferred over from Pegasus, Commander Cain's daughter.

[@avlanche7777]

Just great times 👍

[@MGEE8572]

I never knew the word 'Frak' came from the OGBSG

[@captainbeaky]

It appears in Judge Dredd/2000AD way before BSG.

[@ablemagawitch]

"FELDERCARB!

[@KnowTrentTimoy]

I remembered as a 10 year old watching these reruns from my dad's collections in the late 1990's. When the girls did their part and blew up those Cylons I was ecstatic for days. I couldn't wait to watch more!

[@Meower68]

At 1:30 "And for Sagan's sake, don't shoot me." Did I hear that correctly?

[@HariSeldon913]

It's been heard correctly billions and billions of times...

[@deangestner6708]

A nod to Carl Sagan

[@dembetsen9452]

You only need 3 buttons to drive a Viper

[@drmayeda1930]

a lot more than that but only 3 on the stick for the most essential flight controls.

[@mikegallant811]

​@@drmayeda1930 yeppers, Fire(red one),turbo and IM(reverse thrusters).

[@willemm9356]

Same number of buttons as you need to drive a Starfighter. ;)

[@kloatlanta]

They never used these pilots again though

[@BrotherDerrick3X]

Brie appeared in War of the Gods. That was her last episode.

[@Daylin821]

IT’S FASCINATING, how in 2024 this scene would be considered the regurgitated, moniker ……….”WOKE” 🤔🤔🤔

[@HighGroundCantina]

Buzz Words are lazy. It’s like those channels are a collaborative wind up toy! All jacked up on a strange combination of Free speech and Boycotts. Slaves to the clicks, I guess. It’s such a charming scene and episode. How lame was that bachelor party? Cracks me up every time that Starbuck hypes up basically a church afterglow.

[@Daylin821]

@@HighGroundCantina “Buzz Words are lazy” yet they are unfortunately existing. Used by those who can’t successfully define it…..after writing it. I’ve challenged all that crossed swords with me…..all have been bested. 🎩

[@elvis3571]

blonde one missed :)

[@janetbelanger5757]

The only problem with series like this is that you quickly run out of story ideas. There are only so many stories before you start telling the same story in a different way. The audience will see this and stop watching

[@leftenentcrittendon3134]

Who put a black womens in the clockpit?!!!!

[@troyjollimore4100]

Impossible. Everyone knows there were NO positive female role models in Entertainment until the new Woke stuff. This is 1979, for crying out loud! 🤔

[@BrotherDerrick3X]

1978

[@troyjollimore4100]

@@BrotherDerrick3X This would have been a later episode, wouldn’t it?

[@BrotherDerrick3X]

@@troyjollimore4100 no. This is the first episode after the pilot movie.

[@drmayeda1930]

That's what some people would have you believe, but what about Sheba? Wilma Deering, or Xena, Uhura, a number of others.

[@331Grabber]

Woke is about racism.

[@DartmanX]

1979: Women are terrible pilots. 2003: Kara Thrace takes on 8 raiders by herself and survives. The world is a changed place.

[@RedSiegfried]

If you watch the show, they weren't terrible because they were women. They were terrible at first because they were inexperienced. And they got a lot better. IIRC it was implied that some of the other pilots thought they would be bad because they were women, but they were proven wrong. Everyone thinks history starts when they wake up in the morning.

[@alexhenderson1312]

2003 (non) Galactica was total felgergarb, and Kara Thrace a Mary Sue pre-Rey (Disney Star Wars) 👎

[@lifecarioca2928]

After Star Wars, many other movies tried to follow Lucas's winning model! But without success. The plot of Galáctica is sufferable and ridiculous. Bad taste, Adama resembles a religious leader from a certain country in the Middle East, before Christ. 🥸