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Attention on deck!

The Gunstar Trireme-GSR 0201 is now taking on recruits to serve aboard the most elite Gunstar in the Colonial fleet.

May she soon have a full compliment of the best of the best the fleet has to offer!

If you would like to enlist to serve aboard the Trireme and make your mark in Colonial history...

If you would like to participate in the decimation, annihilation, and utter destruction of the Cylon Tyranny...

Then the Gunstar Trireme wants YOU! Sign up while the best positions remain open.

Let us all wish GOOD HUNTING to the GUNSTAR TRIREME AND HER CREW!

SO SAY WE ALL!!!!

Buzzsaw out!

The "modern' Galacticon (or at least in the form we know it now) was kicked off in Los Angeles in 2003...Richard Hatch & team put that together to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Battlestar Galactica.

(I have had the good fortune to be on that team and every subsequent Galacticon since!).

Galacticon is of course is an indirect descendent of the "Yahren" Cons that happened every 5 years previously...so you have an idea of the lineage and connections to past events.

2008 saw the venue moved to the high seas...with Rex Mundi Productions LLC taking over the helm...with Galacticon II: Galacticruise & of course with Emissaries: Galacticon III in Houston.

Well any Convention is built on many things, not least it's guest list and to give all an idea of the who's who of Galacticon....

To keep it simple I'll feature a guests picture(s), name, show, character(s) name and Galacticon appearance.

For brevity's sake....and my fingers!....Galacticon (Los Angeles) becomes G1, Galacticruise becomes G2 & of course so on...

Also for the sake of my digits, Battlestar Galactica original series is BSG TOS...Reimagined is BSG RIS.

Also note that a lot of these folks made or will make repeat appearances so they are only pictured once, with the credit.

Also, for actors/actresses that appeared as guest stars, for the sake (again) of my digits, only the shows themselves will be noted, not the episodes (you can look them up!...lot more fun that way)...also to note considering the above note on abbreviation: Caprica is Caprica, Galactica 1980 is Galactica 1980 (easy!)...and if you will refer to the note below, any non BSG actors will have their show noted.

There will be but one credit per actor (except in the notable case of Richard Hatch and a few others)...way too many to list if it got down into that kind of detail AND if we are talking writers, producers, effects...well, it will be noted.

Before I begin I would like to add that NO Galacticon has ever...never been exclusively Battlestar Galactica...ain't that a kick in the pants...but true, each successive show has featured guest(s) from other shows as well....but I guess you wouldn't know till you saw the (almost) complete list!

Any omissions, mistakes or any other sort of errors on this list are my own...just noting that (unless of course any reference material was boo-booed in some way!).

Shall we begin?

Wheeee....!

Richard Hatch

Captain Apollo

BSG TOS

Tom Zarek

BSG RIS

G1 G2 G3

Dirk Benedict

Lt. Starbuck

BSG TOS

G1 G3

Terry Carter

Colonel Tigh

BSG TOS

G1 G2 G3

Glen Larson

Producer

BSG TOS

G1

Noah Hathaway

Boxey

BSG TOS

G1 G3

Patrick Macnee

Count Iblis

BSG TOS

G1

Jack Stauffer

Lt.Bojay

BSG TOS

G1 G3

John Dullaghan

Dr. Wilker

BSG TOS

G1

Britt Ekland

Tenna

BSG TOS

G1

Anne Lockhart

Lt. Sheba

BSG TOS

G1 G3

Jim Carlson                            (Jim is on the right)

Writer

BSG TOS

G1

Ron Kelly

Security Officer Reese

BSG TOS

G1

Stu Phillips

Composer

BSG TOS

G1 G2

Sarah Rush

Cpl Rigel

BSG TOS

G1 G2 G3

Herb Jefferson

Lt. Boomer

BSG TOS

G1 G3

Terrence McDonnell

Writer

BSG TOS

G1 G2

Ron Moore

Writer/Producer

BSG RIS

Star Trek: The Next Generation

G1

James Horan

Jo'Brill

Star Trek: The Next Generation

G1

Dick Durock

Imperious Leader

BSG TOS

G1

Tom DeSanto

Writer/Producer

X-Men

G1 G2

George Murdock

Dr. Salik

BSG TOS

G2

Denny Miller

Ser 5-9

BSG TOS

G2

Austin Stoker

MacDonald

Battle for the Planet of the Apes

G2

Robert Feero

Bora

BSG TOS

G2

Michael Swan

Deputy Collins

Galactica: 1980

G2

Alessandra Torresani

Zoe Graystone

Caprica

G3

Andrew Probert

Concept Artist

BSG TOS

Star Trek: The Motion Picture

Star Trek: The Next Generation

G3

Bear McCreary

Composer

BSG RIS

G3

Edward James Olmos

Admiral Adama

BSG RIS

G3

Mary McDonnell

President Laura Roslin

BSG RIS

G3

Kandyse McClure

Petty Officer Dee Dualla

BSG RIS

G3

Kate Vernon

Ellen Tigh

BSG RIS

G3

Kathy Coleman

Holly Marshall

Land of the Lost

G3

Leah Cairns

Lt. Margaret "Racetrack" Edmonson

BSG RIS

G3

Lee Stringer

Effects Artist

BSG RIS

Star Trek: Voyager

G3

Luciana Carro

Commander Louanne "Kat" Katraine

BSG RIS

G3

Michael Hogan

Colonel Saul Tigh

BSG RIS

G3

Michael Trucco

Sam Anders

BSG RIS

G3

Nicki Clyne

Petty Officer Cally Henderson Tyrol

BSG RIS

G3

Tahmoh Penikett

Captain Karl "Helo" Agathon

BSG RIS

G3

Bodie Olmos

Lt. Brendan "Hotdog" Costanza

BSG RIS

G3

Esai Morales

Joseph Adama

Caprica

G3

Eric Chu

Concept Artist

BSG RSI

G3

Fellow Colonials!

I bid all a good evening!

If anyone is wondering....it's Hero time...and not to keep you in suspense...this one goes to an actor originally from Tel Aviiv Israel (moving to Canada as a child) and is known for his roles in Terminator: The Sarah Conner Chronicles as well as Grimm (among many others)...all of you know him as Sam Adama, the Uncle of future Admiral William Adama on Caprica.

This Hero goes out to Sasha Roiz!

So Say We All!

Shawn O'Donnell

President

Battlestar Galactica Fan Club

Colonials and Fellow Ravens,

As you all know, we just got confirmed to make an appearance at the Houston Con.  Richard Hatch and Kate Vernon will also be at the Houston Con.  We will be there representing the Mother Club and promoting Galacticon 4.  So, if any Raven Members or friends of Battlestar Raven lives within the vicinity of the Houston Con venue or even if you don't but are planning attend to the convention, please do not hesitate to stop by the Raven table and say hello to everyone.  A few of you have been sent this same banner via PM to help spread the word about the con in support of Richard Hatch and Kate Vernon being there.  So please do not hesitate to share this banner to your friends or any site you can think off.  Every little share you do helps spread the word!  

Anne B. Davis, who portrayed Alice Nelson on The Brady Bunch passed away Saturday June 1st.

The part she played was as the housekeeper for the Brady family, but the character was much more than that...she was an integral part of that "Bunch" who must somehow form a family and just as much as member of that extended brood as Mike, Carol, Greg, Peter, Bobby, Marcia, Jan & Cindy.

She was also a surrogate mother and friend, not only to her television family but to millions of people watching.

Anne B. Davis will be hugely missed but will live in on the hearts & minds of all.

Farewell Alice, we Love you!

Marsters is always a character. Made us shoot this picture three times 'till he "got his character right"!

Hello Colonials!

Welcome to all and a special greeting to all of our newest members.

It is Hero time everyone!

For anyone who doesn't know about the Hero's...I'm sure our new people may not, it's a weekly award presented on behalf of an actor, writer, director, producer, fan etc. that has had a profound impact on the universe of BSG.

Without further ado,  here is the newest entry...he played Barnabus Greeley on Caprica and is well known for his role as Spike on Buffy the Vampire Slayer & Angel.
The Hero goes to: James Marsters!

So Say We All!

Shawn O'Donnell

President

Battlestar Galactica Fan Club

It's not often that I sink my teeth into something like a film, a book or in this case a comic book story and do a formal review.
Sure I have opinions...and I voice them all over the place about a variety of things...things in general, Battlestar Galactica in particular...but a formal, up & down, documented opinion of a particular work.
Meh...not.
But, but...the folks over at Dynamic Forces said "Hey, check this out" so I said "Why not?".
I am of course speaking of the Battlestar Galactica comic book line they are producing.
I just finished reading "The Adama Gambit Part Two"...and I came away impressed.
(Sometimes hard to do with me, I will admit).

Look, over the years...there have been a just a few Battlestar Galactica comics that have been put out, with varying degrees of success and THIS one looks like it's pushing all the right buttons.
It makes me want to read more...and if that's the case....then I'm willing to bet other people will too!
The creators obviously know the show...the original Battlestar Galactica that is...so the dialogue rings true and because of that and the interaction that you see...you know you are seeing those characters.
If any written (or drawn in this case) storyline, puts those characters in your head (yes, the magic mind movie that people get from reading a book)...then it's doing it's job.
In this this story you see the classic elements...Man vs. Cylon of course, which is always the basic premise of Battlestar Galactica (at least one of the basic premises I should say)...and it's straight forward.
At the same time, the dialogue flows along and the story moves with it...plus you see a Commander Adama who is shown to be perfectly human...with human doubt...but has an internal redemption because the warrior in him takes over.
(Showing a little bit a Commander Cain streak in him!).
Tie that all up with artwork that is is realistic (my biggest complaint against a lot of contemporary comic book art is that they have become in some cases TOO cartoony) is not realized here.
The people look like real people and thankfully like the actual characters.
On this one, I have to give it a solid thumbs up...it's good to see the classic crew taking the fight to the tinhead's once again....and The Adama Gambit does not disappoint!

This is a series of interviews that will be done with various actors & actresses exploring their thoughts about the convention scene and what is going on in the universe around them.
Our first interview is with Claudia Christian, who is probably best known for her role as Commander Susan Ivanova on Babylon 5.
Her first television role was a guest appearance on Dallas & then as series regular Melody Hughes on the drama Berrenger's, followed by appearances in The Hidden, Maniac Cop 2 & Hexed before finally appearing on Babylon 5.
She has also appeared in Freaks and Geeks & She Spies.
Claudia returned to her stage beginnings in the US premier of Michael Weller's What the Night is For in 2004.
She also appearances in the BBC comedy series Broken News as well as the Doctor Who audio drama "The Reaping" as well as Showtime's LOOK: The Series.
Claudia also has a music career, having released a solo CD called Once Upon a Time, a single called "Taboo" as well as a project with other Babylon 5 cast members on the album The Be Five. All told Claudia has appeared in over 40 films & 35 television series!

Shawn: What was the first convention that you attended?

Claudia: I don't recall, but I think it might have been the UK one with the whole cast of Babylon 5...

Shawn: So how did it go?

Claudia: If it WAS that event it was shocking, we had no idea that the show was that popular!

Shawn: What would say was probably the best Convention you've been to?

Claudia: I have had some fun DragonCon's and some great Cons overseas....I can't really choose one perfect event, but the Phoenix 20th anniversary reunion for Babylon 5 was darned near perfect!

Shawn: OK, how about the worst Convention?

Claudia: There was one a military base years ago...9 people showed up...I was with some Xena actors and it was just colossally awful...

Shawn: What would you say was the strangest or most unusual fan encounter you've had at an event?

Claudia: You can read about that in my book "Babylon Confidential" www.claudiachristian.net
It involves a man in a Tribble suit!

Shawn: How about an actual bad experience at a show?

Claudia: Check out the Tribble story...and in my own words:

Shawn: Scary

Claudia: It was a doozy!

Shawn: Well, in retrospect what would you do differently if you were running a Convention?

Claudia: I tried to to throw my own Con in London...the riots and a huge bicycle race happened to occur on the same day...it was a LOT of work for very little profit, but the fans had a decent enough time and so did I!
I think Cons should allow the friendly guests (like me) more access to the fans such as with breakfasts and casual photo ops...things are becoming too expensive for most fans...

Shawn: Have you ever wanted to get an autograph from someone?

Claudia: Well, I did ask Parker Stevenson of the The Hardy Boys for a photo when I was 13...

Shawn: So what are your current projects?

Claudia: A new novel released by Tor called "Wolf's Empire", a TV show called Runestone, selling my documentary "One Little Pill" and running my non-profit www.cthreefoundation.org counseling addicts and trying to save more lives.

Shawn; How about future projects then?

Claudia: Everything C3...my foundation is my reason to get up every morning...helping people who suffer from AUD (Alcohol Use Disorder) is my life's work!

I want to thank Claudia for taking a few moments with me to answer those questions and shining some light on her thoughts and personal experiences. You can also find Babylon Confidential on Amazon.com
 

Colonials!

Hello to all & welcome to our newest members as always.

I'm a little overdue with last weeks Hero award, but better late than never!

So here it is...

Patrick Gilmore is the actor who portrays Rafferty in the Re-Imagined series episodes "Deadlock" and "Someone to Watch Over Me."

We salute this versatile Canadian actor!

So Say We All!

Shawn O'Donnell

President

Battlestar Galactica Fan Club

ATTENTION ALL DECKS: Operation Zoe Viper, 7242NC,  after an extended transit flight and several conferences with Cueball, has been inspected, fueled and armed. She is cocked and locked and ready to rock. Request and forms will go to CAG with a request that she be listed as "Mission Ready" for Houston appearance. Will advise. End of transmission.

Ravens,

It is never an easy thing to lose someone very close to you whether you are directly related to them or whether you are very good friends with them.  

Please keep in your prayers, the family of a very good friend of the Raven's very own Chief Engineering Officer Jeff "Gambit" Phillips and the Raven's very own Communications Officer Shane "Ogre" Coble. Gambit lost a very dear friend of his who was almost like a brother to him named Dan Moore, to brain cancer over the weekend.  Gambit and Ogre especially Gambit, I am here for you, along with the rest of your fellow Ravens ( all over 200 of them ) hailing from all parts of the world.  Like I said, WE ARE A FAMILY here on the Raven.  And when one goes down, WE ARE ALL HERE to support each other.  

Gambit, in honor of your very good friend Dan "Kazado" Moore, I AM ORDERING the Raven to dim her lights until he is laid to rest and run a missing man formation with all viper and raptor squadron participating.  Per Ogre's request, he will have the honor of flying in a multi squadron man formation.  And since Dan "Kazado" Moore was almost like a brother to you from what I was told, it is just befitting that he become a member of the Raven's Family and Friends Circle.  So I hereby announce, that for this day forward, the 18th of May 2014, effectively immediately, Dan "Kazado" Moore, is now an official HONORARY MEMBER of the Minotaur Viper Squadron.

"ATTENTION ALL RAVEN PERSONNEL THROUGHOUT THE SHIP, THE RAVEN IS NOW DIMMING ALL HER LIGHTS IN HONOR OF DAN MOORE!"

" ALL VIPER AND RAPTOR SQUADRONS, INITIATE MISSING MAN FORMATION"

"MAKE THIS HAPPEN EVERYONE!"

Colonials,

Two new convention Banners will be making its debut next week that will be representing not only Battlestar Raven, but the mother club ,  Battlestar Galactica Fan Club. These two new convention banners of course will be accompanied by the Raven's original banner as well.  The two banners will also become what I call "the Traveling Banners".  It means, where the Raven is being represented by other members of Battlestar Raven other than myself, these banners will be there.  The original Raven banner if far too important and precious to be shipped around as it contains signatures from cast members of both the TOS BSG Series and RDM Series.  Those signatures were obtained by those Raven Members who were with me at Galacticon 3, as a gift to me which I dedicate to my whole Staff and Crew.  Without them, there is NO Raven.  I am approaching my second year as her Commanding Officer this coming August 1, 2014. And I will say this, it has been such an honor and such a pleasure so far, leading a group that is full of class act and talented members.  The Raven has truely indeed evolve!  And as I stated early this year, it will be THE YEAR OF THE RAVEN!

So Say We All!

DragonLady

BFC Vice President

Commanding Officer-Battlestar Raven-BFC 002

Hello Colonials!
I bid you a good day or evening...depending on when you read this!
Though it took a little playing catch up, with these two Hero awards we are now currently up to date with them.
Without further ado, (and with all thanks to the Battlestar Wiki in this regard)...our TWO newest Hero's!).

Arlene Martel is an American actress whose TV career stretches as early as 1958, starring in many popular (now considered "classic") shows such as Death Valley Days,' The Twilight Zone, Bewitched, and Columbo.
Many science fiction fans may remember Ms. Martel best as the betrothed, scheming Vulcan wife of Mr. Spock, T'Pring, in the episode "Amok Time" from the original Star Trek series.
Ms. Martel guest-starred as Adulteress 58 in the Original Series episode, "The Long Patrol."

Larry Cedar is the actor who played Cadet Shields in the Original Series episode, "The Gun on Ice Planet Zero, Part I".

His work in the Star Trek franchise includes the roles of Nydrom in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's "Armageddon Game", Jal Tersa in Star Trek: Voyager's "Alliances", and Tessic in Star Trek: Enterprise's "Marauders".
He has also appeared in Stargate SG-1 as Prior #2 in the Brad Turner-directed episode, "Origin".

Now you may wonder WHY I called this message "Dinner with a friend"...well, let me tell you (and from personal experience too!)...conventions are a GREAT way to bond and find fellowship while you break bread with someone...over the years I've had some very interesting dinner companions in the atmosphere of conventions...some famous, some not...but ALL were people I would sit down to dinner with again.

For instance, the aforementioned Arlene Martel....yup, I had lunch with T'Pring!

Last year as matter of fact...actually with Arlene, Richard Hatch, Kate Vernon & her Personal Assistant Lynda King...NOW don't get me wrong, I'm not personally boasting about who I have meals with, have had or will have...I AM trying to say that YOU all have (when you go to a Con) the opportunity to do the same...in this case share a table with fellow fans (and friends) & some of those people you see on television or film.

There is also Sci-Con in beautiful Tampa Florida...and I AM looking forward to spending some time in Florida for this one!

Something a little different...though not a Con but an acting workshop is Columbia Gorge Acting Intensive

later this year...

Of course the big Kahuna in all this is of course Galacticon IV

The biggest Battlestar Galactica event at any time....and while next years event will include guests from other shows...the overriding premise is based upon Battlestar Galactica and it's stars...and OF COURSE I will be at this one!

So get out there and have dinner!

Bon Appetit!

So Say We All!

Shawn O'Donnell

President

Battlestar Galactica Fan Club

"Hello,

 I'm Ernie Miller and as the Battlestar Galactica Fan Club Adminstrator of Colonial Affairs,    I welcome you on behalf of the leadership of the BFC.

 Please let me know if there is anything I can do to help you on the site"

 Welcome   So Say We All !!!!!!

Fellow Colonials!
Hello to all & welcome as always to our newest members...we are always moving forward!
Finally able to get "caught up" from the whirlwind of activity that has been going on and as promised we are going to be catching up with our Hero's at last.
Without further ado, here we go:

Samuel Stewart "Sam" Witwer  is an American actor and musician. He has portrayed Lt. Crashdown in Battlestar Galactica, Davis Bloome in Smallville, and vampire Aidan Waite of the US/Canadian remake of BBC's supernatural drama series Being Human on Syfy in the US and Space in Canada. He also voiced main protagonist Galen Marek/Starkiller in the successful multimedia project Star Wars: The Force Unleashed as well as The Son & Darth Maul for Cartoon Network's Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008 TV series).

Kerry Norton is an English Actress & former gymnast.Kerry had a small part on the American TV series, Sabrina the Teenage Witch in 1996. The episode, entitled "A Girl and Her Cat", saw Norton putting her years of gymnast training to the test. Norton played the part of Lulu, a very flexible gymnastic witch, who was engaged to Sabrina's second cousin.
She has made several guest appearances on Battlestar Galactica as paramedic Layne Ishay (with her real-life husband as Major Lee 'Apollo' Adama). Ishay saves Commander Adama's life when shot by Sharon "Boomer" Valerii. She was in the first three episodes of season 2, "Scattered", "Valley of Darkness" and "Fragged", and a later episode entitled "Downloaded". She also appeared in the season 3 episode "Taking a Break from All Your Worries", and the season 4 episodes "A Disquiet Follows My Soul", "No Exit", "Islanded in a Stream of Stars" and "Daybreak, Parts 1 and 2".
She also played the leading role of Anne Alstein in The Screwfly Solution. She played the part of Maxi Purvis in Bad Girls' third and fourth series and was a member of the original cast of the touring play Seven Deadly Sins Four Deadly Sinners.
She also appeared in a Fairy Liquid television advertisement in 2010.

Colm Feore is a Canadian-American actor born in Boston, Massachusetts. Within the Galactica universe, Feore appears on-screen as Richard Adar, the President of the Twelve Colonies at the time of the Cylon attack.
Feore graduated from Ridly College in St. Catherines, Ontario, and attended the National Theater School in Montreal, Quebec. He became a member of the Acting Company at the famous Stratford Festival of Canada, where he performed such roles as Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew and the title characters in Richard III and Hamlet.
While not performing at Stratford, Feore appeared in minor roles in American and Canadian film and television productions. He shot to fame in Canada by portraying former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau in a 2002 CBC miniseries. The actress portraying Trudeau's then-wife Margaret, Polly Shannon, is the real-life girlfriend of Callum Keith Rennie, better known in Battlestar Galactica as Leoben Conoy, a Humanoid Cylon.
Feore is perhaps best-known internationally for his intelligent portrayals of varying characters as diverse as pianist Glenn Gould and Marcus Andronicus in the 1999 remake of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus. He also portrayed the Necromongers' Lord Marshal in The Chronicles of Riddick. He recently appeared in the film Bon Cop, Bad Cop, which has become one of the highest-grossing Canadian films of all time.

And there you have it!

Major thanks to the resources of both wikipedia & the battlestar wikipeidia on all that!

Tomorrow a major announcement from Galacticon IV so stay TUNED!

So Say We All!

Shawn O'Donnell

President

Battlestar Galactica Fan Club

Attention on deck!

Happy Birthday to the CAG of the Battlestar Raven, Leonidas!

Be sure to congratulate the old man personally when you can.

Also, any available, please assist in transporting the old man's newly arrived bulk shipments of Viagra and prunes to his quarters STAT!

That is all.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY REAMER

Tuesday, April 29 is Roger "Reamer" Barstow's Birthday. The hotshot Leader of the Battlestar Raven Flying Tigers Squadron is always there for his Club, his Friends and his Shipmates. For a tough leader, he is a dedicated and selfless man, and, I'm proud to say, my Friend. Here's to you Reamer, Happy Birthday and Thanks. SO SAY WE ALL! I believe some crew members are already celebrating.