Introduction
Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome is a prequel to the 2003-2009 re-imagined Battlestar Galactica series.
A web-series that became a pilot for a possible series chronicling the early adventures of a young William Adama, but the series was not picked up.
It stars Luke Pasqualino, Ben Cotton, and Lili Bordán.
Michael Taylor wrote the teleplay from a story by Taylor, David Eick, Bradley Thompson and David Weddle, with Jonas Pate as director.
Distribution of Blood & Chrome began as a 10-episode online series in conjunction with Machinima.com on 09 November 2012, and also aired as a television film on 10 February 2013 on Syfy.
Outline (General)
Set in the tenth year of the First Cylon War, the story follows William Adama, a young pilot just graduated from the Academy, assigned to one of the battlestars in the Colonial fleet: the Galactica.
The series provides a very basic frame of reference to the events that ensued in the time between the prequel series Caprica, and the basis series Battlestar Galactica.
Outline Series 01, Episode 04
The commander of one of the ghost ships – an older Orion-class battlestar called Osiris – assembles a small fleet for a mission.
They will bring Doctor Kelly to embedded Colonial operatives on Djerba, a former winter resort planet located in Cylon territory that holds Doctor Kelly’s objective.
Doctor Kelly requests that Adama and Coker continue to escort her in the Wild Weasel.
Coker overhears the commander say that the mission’s personnel must be volunteers (i.e. it is a suicide mission); he is not pleased.
On the launch deck, Coker runs into his old friend Lieutenant Jim Kirby, who was presumed dead after his ship was badly damaged in battle.
Kirby asks Coker whether his wife has remarried, and Coker informs him that she has not and is raising their son. Kirby is overjoyed to learn that he has a child.
As the mission fleet departs, Commander Ozar of the Osiris tells the crew that the fate of the war depends on Doctor Kelly reaching her objective.
Just after the fleet jumps into Djerba’s orbit, a Cylon Basestar appears.
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Trivia
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Production & Filming Details
- Creators: Michael Taylor and David Eick.
- Producers: David Eick, Jonas Pate, Paul M. Leonard, and Michael Taylor.
- Music: Bear McCreary.
- Production: Universal Cable Productions.
- Distributor: NBC Universal Television Distribution.
- Original Network: Machinima.com
- Release Date: 16 November 2012.
- Running Time: 12 minutes.
- Country: US.
- Language: English.
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