a great cast of charachters and combine with several celebrity cameo to make this slightly typical science fiction story fresh each week . the plot revolve around the destruction of the 12 colony of mankind and by a race of machine call cylons . the last remaining battlestar ( galactica ) be now in search of the lost 13th tribe and from it know origin and which split from the original group and have no know location . they hold the hope that earth will give them a base to fight their antagonist and to rebuild their own race . this series put universal in the front of sci fi developement for a while . worth watch for any science fiction fan who may have miss it . you will enjoy it a great deal .