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Dec 8, 2003 Season 1 Episode 1 95 min TV-14

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Battlestar Galactica Season 1

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Season 1 Episode 1 — Aired on Dec 8, 2003 • runs about 95 minutes.

Notable cast/guest names in this episode include Edward James Olmos, Mary McDonnell, Katee Sackhoff, Jamie Bamber.

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In a distant part of the galaxy lie The Twelve Colonies of Man, a civilization that has been at peace for some forty years with an empire of machines, the Cylons, who were created generations before as worker drones for mankind, but became independent, rose in rebellion, and launched war on their masters. Now, the Cylons have evolved into more human form, into machine-created biological beings, who seek to exterminate true biological humans. To this end they use a human scientist, Gaius, to help one of their infiltrators, known as #6, penetrate the Colonies' master ...