By Chris Snellgrove
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One of the things that did Ronald D. Moore Battlestar Galactica The restart is so successful that it was essentially everything that Star Trek was not. While Gene Roddenberry’s classic show brought to the Cosmos’s full exploration of hope, Moore’s series focused on the frantic fight of humanity for survival after a genocidal attack of the cylons. Despite the differences between franchises, however, Battlestar Galactica was inspired by Star Trek to create Cloud 9, a civilian fleet ship whose interior looks like a lush and outside planet.
How Star Trek created the Cloud 9
THE Battlestar Galactica The restart introduced the Cloud 9 into the episode “Colonial Day”, a very political episode which called for a slight change in the context. The showrunner Moore wanted to present outdoor environments to the show to prevent him from feeling too claustrophobic, but he also wanted to prevent the galactica from visiting a new planet every week at the Star Trek. The solution was to introduce the Cloud 9, a civilian ship whose interior looks outside a planet.
At this point, you may wonder why Battlestar Galactica Showrunner and other producers thought that the series needed Coud 9 first. The short answer is that if the show never brings its characters to new locations, viewers will end up starting to go as crazy as their favorite characters. This is one of the major reasons that GalacticaA show on the characters who live in space 24/7 have always found many opportunities to visit Caprica and other planets.
A large part of this exploration occurred later while Ronald Moore became more comfortable so that these characters explore strange new worlds. However, the Battlestar Galactica Showrunner wanted to create Cloud 9 in season 1 so that the writers did not necessarily have to take the main ship and its heroes in a new planet every week as in Star Trek: the original series Or The next generation. Thanks to Cloud 9 (a ship whose interior resembles that of a planet), the spectacle could provide a visual change in rhythm if necessary without forcing the title ship to make detours.
If the showrunner had been anyone Otherwise, we would probably not have obtained a new ship. Our heroes would simply visit a new planet each week, which is the formula made popular by Kirk and Spock. However, Ronald Moore made his debut in the show business by writing to Star Trek: The next generationand he obtained this work largely because of his great passion for The original series (He even became the expert of Klingon de Tng because of his love of TO). Once he started organizing his own show, Moore apparently wanted to do something different, so Battlestar Galactica Introduced Cloud 9 so that he does not have to bite the Trek style.
As hardcore Battlestar Galactica Fans know this, Cloud 9 has not reached the end of the series. Instead, this unusual ship was destroyed with a nuclear apparatus by a version of six (Gina Invière) whose rupture with Dr. Baltar led to very literal benefits for our heroes. But we would never have had this ship in the show at all Otherwise for Star Trek and its “Planet of the Week” trope that Ron Moore wanted to avoid. He finally succeeded (so let’s say all of us!) By creating an autonomous science fiction Series that was boldly where no trek had gone before.
