The Living Legend
- Episode aired Nov 26, 1978
- 47m
While suffering from a fuel shortage, The Galactica finds the supposedly lost Battlestar Pegasus, led by the legendary Commander Cain.While suffering from a fuel shortage, The Galactica finds the supposedly lost Battlestar Pegasus, led by the legendary Commander Cain.While suffering from a fuel shortage, The Galactica finds the supposedly lost Battlestar Pegasus, led by the legendary Commander Cain.
Photos
- Lucifer
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaIn the early scenes of Saga of a Star World (1978), five battlestars appear, although only two are clearly named: the Galactica and the Atlantia. Faint background radio voices can be heard identifying the other three: Pacifica, Triton, and Acropolis. In The Gun on Ice Planet Zero (1978), Cree mentioned the Columbia. In "The Living Legend," a sixth battlestar, the Pegasus, is named. The other six remained unnamed.
- GoofsAs Commander Cain's shuttle approaches Galactica's landing bay the writing on the side of the shuttle is GAL 356 making it from Galactica, not Pegasus. Reused footage.
- Quotes
[last lines]
Count Baltar: Burn, Galactica. You're finished, Adama!
Cylon Centurion: [looking out to port] Sir, if I may...
Count Baltar: I don't want to miss a moment of the last Battlestar's destruction.
Cylon Centurion: I really think you should take look at the other Battlestar.
Count Baltar: What are you babbling about, a...
[Baltar is dumbstruck at the sight of the Battlestar Pegasus]
Count Baltar: It's impossible!
Cylon Centurion: No. It is a Battlestar.
Count Baltar: *Turn* you fool! Turn! He's coming right for us!
[freeze frame: TO BE CONTINUED]
- ConnectionsEdited into Mission Galactica: The Cylon Attack (1979)
- SoundtracksExploration/Theme from Battlestar Galactica
(uncredited)
Composed and Conducted by Stu Phillips
Performed by The Los Angeles Philharmonic
Lloyd Bridges gives an impressive performance as the legendary Commander Caine. And you can't help sitting there with a big fat smile at the end as old Baltar finds he's bitten off way more than he thought. Wonderful performances. Hello to Sheba (Anne Lockhart) and glad to see you are still with us, Maren Jensen, as the elusive scarcely-seen Athena. Hey, that girl, she sure didn't work hard for her paycheck. Flight Lieutenant Jolly has a bigger part than she does. Hell, that robot daggit thing has a bigger part than she does.
Unfortunately, Anne Lockhart clearly doesn't fill the void left by Jane Seymour. That's immediately obvious.
It is the first episode since the pilot that evokes that feeling of pride once more. All the others bar the two other double episodes were about making use of old Universal movie sets, Westerns and Medieval whatever, and they were quite dumb in places, and as way, way off target as Baltar's grand schemes. But this one, it makes you cheer again, for the colonies and for the Galactica and for the show!
- RavenGlamDVDCollector
- Jun 17, 2017
Details
- Runtime47 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
- 4:3