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I think the reason for the delay is because I have so much to say about this show that I’m afraid I can’t fit it all into one column.

Taking a look back at nearly five years I’ve done this column, one subject I’ve been conspicuously quiet on is the 2003-2009 reimagining of “Battlestar Galactica.” I’ve discussed the the original “Battlestar Galactica” and even its uglier sibling Galactica 1980, but for some reason I’ve never got around to covering the pride of the Colonial fleet-Ron Moore’s brilliant reimagining, which reshaped Glen Larson’s family-friendly Star Wars-inspired TV series into a hard-hitting, at times brutal piece of socially relevant post-9/11 entertainment. Richard Hatch as “Captain Apollo” preparing to launch his Viper in the original 1978 version of “Battlestar Galactica.” This happened through most of the series run, with all of us gathering at my house for the 2009 finale, “Daybreak.” No television show since has ever had the attention of so many friends of mine at once. When season one was finally broadcast, we would all take turns hosting “BSG nights” at one of our houses every whenever a new episode debuted. There was a year-long gap between the miniseries and the debut of the first season, so there was plenty of time to get people to watch the mini before the actual show arrived. I would also get my wife and most of my friends hooked on it as well ( my off-air VHS tape of the miniseries got a lot of circulation). Moore’s “Battlestar Galactica” (BSG) would became my favorite TV show of the new millennium to date. Well, by the end of that first hour, I was hooked. I’m in my 30s, preparing to watch the 2003 reimagined miniseries of “Battlestar Galactica” with considerable skepticism.

I even remember going to see a slightly truncated two-hour theatrical version of the pilot movie multiple times (with “Sensurround”… a subwoofer carefully hidden behind the screen to make the low-end audio rumble). I watched the series religiously, often sticking a tape recorder by the TV speaker to record it for later playback ( VCRs were new in those days, and prohibitively expensive). As a not-quite 12 year old kid in the fall of 1978, I became a huge fan of the original “Battlestar Galactica”.