"Battlestar Galactica" Experiment in Terra (TV Episode 1979) Poster

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6/10
One of weaker episodes
whatch-1793115 October 2020
Nice for Apollo to get focus.

But... this episode drastically weakened the ship of lights people. All the mystery and intrigue gone, replaced by a cheesy salesman.

Also, they find an Earth (Terra) but not the *right* Earth. This just lampshaded a fundamental flaw in this series: they were the last humans alive and running to escape the Cylons, but meanwhile, they find a new planet with humans on it every week.

It's not really a BSG episode, it's practically a back door pilot of Quantum Leap.
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6/10
Messy
keyope1 April 2019
This is one of the episodes that hasn't aged well. In fact, it's aged horribly. There's a welcome return of the ship of lights, but that's about all. Apollo ends up guided by the actor who played Devon in Knight Rider. The plan is to negotiate for peace with the Eastern Alliance, who were never very good villains anyway (think Space Nazis). The costumes and sci-fi elements of this episode (such as some weird cyborg people) look cheap and if this was the first episode of Galactica you ever saw you'd probably dismiss it as camp nonsense. Skip this one if you can.
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7/10
This episode gets undeservedly panned
LoneWolfArcher18 April 2021
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BSG is one of the best shows from my childhood. So I may be biased, but I don't understand why this episode is rated so poorly.

It is ahead of it's time. Broadcast in 1979, years before Ronald Reagan's "Star Wars" initiative (SDI). Two enemy forces armed with nukes pointed at each other are trying to broker peace, when one launches all of their nukes.

The Battlestar Galactica uses it's lasers to blast them while still in space. (See, SDI!) This prevents a counter attack and causes the aggressors to settle for a brokered peace!

Heck, Apollo even gives a "peace through strength"speech, foreshadowing Reagan's handling of the cold war! BSGe was prophetic.
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7/10
On the brink of a nuclear war on Earth!!!!
elo-equipamentos27 November 2019
One the best episode due for a different and wise approach of a superior soft spoken Alien called for short name John, he takes Capt. Apollo to explains an emergency to saves Earth on the border of a nuclear war between Western side against Eastern side, then Apollo must to meddle at once, his assignment has an upmost, in fact he has just few hours on with earthlings to settle all matters and cease the hostilities between both sides, this episode reminds us our own challenge here, the Earth was split in two world powers, the art emulate the life, here the screenplay implied an unusual solution the peace comes from outer space by an superior Aliens that have been keeping your eyes in us to maintenance the peace, we knew them as GOD!!!

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First watch: 2019 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 7.5
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6/10
Twilight Zone meets Battalstar!
mm-399 July 2023
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Twilight Zone meets Battalstar is Experiment in Terra! Apollo and get's captured by the super space ship, and the beings send Apollo on a mission to save planet Terra as a different famous military leader . A cold war story has the Eastern Alliance I believe represents the Communist East block, while Terra is the West. The story has more Liberal government believe peace with out strength, but appeasement will create peace with the totalitarians of the East. There is the mystic creators of the starship and Apollo must try and save the day and stop the repeat disaster the Cyclon's did in the first episode. Of course the Battlestar helps out. If your a fan of the Twilight Zone the episode like the old episode of a lost pilot from a different dimension mix with a special effect make for a 6 out of 10 star episode.
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6/10
Quantum Jump
Fluke_Skywalker22 February 2018
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Under even the lightest scrutiny, the logic of this episode doesn't hold up. There are plot holes here big enough to fly the Galactica through. There are two things that make this episode noteworthy 1.) It essentially plays as a dry run for Don Bellisario's (who was a writer for Galactica) Quantum Leap, w/our hero ccoupying the body of another character to right a wrong and communicating w/a holographic image that guides him. 2.) It sees Richard Hatch's Apollo front and center in a series that had seen his character eclipsed by the swaggering Starbuck.
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