Battlestar Galactica

The Best Episodes of Battlestar Galactica

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Every episode of Battlestar Galactica ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Battlestar Galactica!

When the 12 Colonies of Man are wiped out by a cybernetic race called the Cylons, Commander Adama and the crew of the battlestar Galactica...
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  1. 7.8/10(537 votes)

    #1 - The Living Legend (1)

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    S1:E10

    While on patrol, Apollo and Starbuck encounter the supposedly lost Battlestar Pegasus, commanded by the living legend, Commander Cain.

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  2. 7.8/10(525 votes)

    #2 - The Living Legend (2)

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    S1:E11

    The brash Commander Cain insists that the Galactica join in on a frontal attack on the Cylons -- an attack that Adama believes would be a suicide mission.

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  3. 7.7/10(496 votes)

    #3 - The Hand of God

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    S1:E21

    Rather than continue fleeing from their enemies, the crew of the Galactica commences an all-out attack on a Cylon base.

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  4. 7.6/10(506 votes)

    #4 - War of the Gods (1)

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    S1:E13

    While the fleet is plagued by glowing lights that constantly fly past them too fast to be followed, Apollo, Starbuck, and Sheba find the remains of a shipwreck, with a mysterious and seemingly all-powerful being named Count Iblis, who helps them capture Baltar.

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  5. 7.5/10(802 votes)

    #5 - Saga of a Star World

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    S1:E1

    The Cylon Empire tricks the Twelve Colonies into believing they are striving for peace. Then they ambush the unprepared colonies and destroy the military's Battlestar fleet. One surviving Battlestar, the Galactica, under the command of Commander Adama, gathers the remaining humans and leads them in the search for the legendary 13th colony called Earth.

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  6. 7.5/10(494 votes)

    #6 - War of the Gods (2)

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    S1:E14

    While the fleet is plagued by glowing lights that constantly fly past them too fast to be followed, Apollo, Starbuck, and Sheba find the remains of a shipwreck, with a mysterious and seemingly all-powerful being named Count Iblis, who helps them capture Baltar.

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  8. 7.4/10(561 votes)

    #7 - Lost Planet of the Gods (2)

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    S1:E3

    While Commander Adama leads the rag-tag fleet of ships to the planet Kobol, where he hopes to find clues of Earth's location, the Viper pilots contract a disease, making it necessary for the women to take on fighter patrol duties. But the traitor Baltar leads the Cylons in an attack on the Galactica.

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  9. 7.4/10(478 votes)

    #8 - Baltar's Escape

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    S1:E18

    When Baltar plans his escape with the help of the three Borellians and the Eastern Alliance Enforcers, members of the Council of Twelve are taken hostage, and Adama must give in to the escapees' demands.

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  10. 7.3/10(594 votes)

    #9 - Lost Planet of the Gods (1)

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    S1:E2

    Apollo and Starbuck discover a void in space. Commander Adama is convinced that this void will lead them to the planet Kobol, and orders they go through.

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  11. 7.1/10(546 votes)

    #10 - The Gun on Ice Planet Zero (1)

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    S1:E6

    Baltar attempts to lure Galactica into range of a gigantic pulsar cannon. Adama becomes aware of the trap and sends in a team of commandos to destroy it.

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  12. 7.1/10(528 votes)

    #11 - The Gun on Ice Planet Zero (2)

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    S1:E7

    Apollo and Starbuck lead a group of convicts on a possible suicide mission to destroy the cannon, which is located on an icy planet.

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  13. 7.1/10(477 votes)

    #12 - The Man with Nine Lives

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    S1:E15

    An old con man known as Chameleon meets Starbuck and convinces him that he may be Starbuck's father, to gain Starbuck's help in evading a trio of bloodthirsty Borellians who are after him in revenge for another con.

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  14. 7.0/10(466 votes)

    #13 - Murder on the Rising Star

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    S1:E16

    When Starbuck's rival in the popular sporting event is found murders, all the evidence points to Starbuck; and Apollo is about the only person who believes in Starbuck's innocence.

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  15. 6.8/10(523 votes)

    #14 - The Long Patrol

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    S1:E5

    Starbuck is assigned to test a new ultra-fast, but unarmed, Viper with a talking computer named CORA; but when he meets a bootlegger, who steals the Viper, Starbuck finds himself arrested by the Galactic Police of a prison planet.

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  16. 6.8/10(493 votes)

    #15 - Fire in Space

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    S1:E12

    A Cylon kamikaze attack leaves the Galactica burning in space, with no way to extinguish the blaze that has trapped Boomer, Athena, and Boxey except a dangerous spacewalk by Apollo and Starbuck.

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  17. 6.8/10(521 votes)

    #16 - Greetings from Earth

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    S1:E17

    When Apollo and Starbuck find a primitive sleeper ship carrying a man, a woman, and four children, speculation spreads in the fleet that the people are from Earth.

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  18. 6.8/10(487 votes)

    #17 - Experiment in Terra

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    S1:E19

    Apollo and Starbuck follow the escaped Eastern Alliance ship back to Terra, where they help the Terrans overcome a nuclear holocaust, with the help of the race of white lights that had earlier helped them defeat Count Iblis.

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  19. 6.7/10(572 votes)

    #18 - The Lost Warrior

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    S1:E4

    Apollo is marooned on a Western Frontier-like planet, where he meets a woman and her son ... and a damaged Cylon, known as Red Eye, who has become a notorious gunslinger.

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  20. 6.6/10(452 votes)

    #19 - Take the Celestra

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    S1:E20

    Starbuck runs in to his long-lost love, Aurora, who is involved with a group trying to free the passenger ship Celestra from its supposedly dictatorial captain.

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  21. 6.3/10(483 votes)

    #20 - The Magnificent Warriors

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    S1:E8

    When a Cylon attack destroys most of the fleet's food supply, the Galactica must trade equipment for grain on a rural planet plagued by the Borays, a group of pig-like marauders.

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  22. 6.3/10(497 votes)

    #21 - The Young Lords

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    S1:E9

    Starbuck crashes on the planet Trillion, where the Cylons have destroyed all the humans except for a band of children, who have become warriors to save their enslaved father.

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Best Episodes Summary

"The Living Legend (1)" is the best rated episode of "Battlestar Galactica". It scored 7.8/10 based on 537 votes. Directed by Vince Edwards and written by Glen A. Larson, it aired on 11/26/1978. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Living Legend (2)".