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Hello Colonials!

It has been a while since I had the opportunity to talk to all of you, what with the trip to Florida & the subsequent catching up of everything...(there's always things to do!)...but back I am!

Speaking of my trip, or more specifically...I want to thank Gene & Renee Hagerty for the wonderful event that they put on along with the wonderful staff that pulled it all together.

I think you'll see some familiar faces in this photo...and btw, the man in the Colonial helmet is Dr. Story Musgrave, veteran astronaut who served is the only person to have flown on all of the shuttles but also served onboard Skylab.

You'll also note that Nicki Clyne, Jack Stauffer & Aron Eisenberg joined in the group photo!

We of course tonight want to honor our Heroes of Battlestar Galactica, so I will proceed directly to that.

Firstly (and you all probably recently saw a blog I published in honor of this man called "Farewell to a Gunslinger"), I wish to honor a wonderful man, great actor, gentleman and everything else good that can be said about a person...someone who joined us on our Galacticruise in 2008 & was always very personally kind to me....Mr. Denny Miller.

Denny passed away September 9th but he is certainly not forgotten. He is well known to BSG fans as Ser-5 in the episode "Gun on Ice Planet Zero'...he also starred ad Duke Shannon on Wagon Train.

Denny also appeared in the Peter Sellers film The Party....along with spots on Gilligan's Island, The Brady Bunch, Alice and many more television & film projects.

The Hero goes to Denny Miller!

We also honor an actor who appeared in television shows ranging from The Twilight Zone, Banacek & Newhart and film projects such as Love is a Many-Splendored Thing & How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.

You all know him as Specter on the original Battlestar Galactica.

Though no longer with us, the history of his film performances remain.

The Hero goes to Murray Matheson!

Last but not least, this actor was born in Jerusalem in the then Mandate of Palestine in 1919...his first job in the US was as a subway electrician.

His television credits span such shows as Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Gunsmoke, The Wild Wild West & Chicago Hope (to name just a few).

Films include Some LIke it Hot, Sadat & Yentl (again to name a few).

You all know him as the wicked leader of the Eastern Alliance in the original BSG episode "Experiment in Terra".

Though retired from the acting now, he paints full time and lives in Calfornia.

The Hero goes to Nehemiah Persoff!

Please remember to keep checking back with us on news for Galacticon IV and just so you know new guest announcements are on the way for November!

So Say We All!

Shawn O'Donnell

President

Battlestar Galactica Fan Club