10 Most Notorious Battlestar Galactica Urban Legends

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BY JAMES HANTON
UPDATED: FEBRUARY 5TH, 2024

Battlestar Galactica, running from 2004-2009, is an iconic piece of noughties television and a revered science fiction classic. To call it the darker, grittier cousin of Star Trek is at once accurate and also a gross oversimplification. BSG is celebrated for its mature themes, performances, visuals, and sharp political undertones, all wrapped up inside an absolutely mesmerizing storyline (even if writer strikes took the shine off the final two seasons). The New York Times includes BSG in their list of the 20 greatest TV shows since The Sopranos, or the so-called 'golden age of television'. It makes for hypnotic, engrossing storytelling.

Like all seminal classics, BSG comes with a slew of rumors and myths attached to it. Many of them have been addressed down the years, and the upcoming revival offers a chance to address even more, but a number of them persist. Some are fairly easily debunked. Others have been allowed to remain relatively unchallenged and are now just accepted as fact. Several of them can even trace their origins as far back as the original BSG series from 1978.

Here are ten of the most notorious BSG urban legends, and the truth behind them all.