February 9, 2013 - 1:09 pm
Battlestar Galactica bombshell Tricia Helfer gave us a couple of minutes during her busy time at the Dallas Sci-Fi Expo. Helfer portrayed Number Six, a far future Mephistopheles who twisted minds as her Cylon race waged war to exterminate humanity. But there turned out to be more to Number Six, and it turns out, there’s much more to the woman behind the sexy robot in a red dress.
That picture on the bike makes her look like a (nice) Kara Thrace in real life.
Also, it was Six who hooked me on BSG. I’ll never forget the image of the window blowing in with that skanky coward Gaius cowering behind her.
I was more of a number 8 man myself.
I think I’m with you on that one, Mauser.
In any case, a great series.
+1 when she is a brunet.
I was so scarred by the awful disco original series I’ve never watched this one. But the idea of a sentient machine civilization that has it in for humans has a long history in SF and is a kinda fun plot device.
One of the best short SF stories I’ve ever read, and one of the least known, is Poul Anderson’s Epilogue, originally published in an Anderson anthology, Time and Stars, in 1964. It is about man and machine cultural conflict as a subject.
Burton, are you sure you’re not conflating the original BSG w/ Gil Gerard’s Buck Rodgers in the 25th Century. BSG was a reasonably solid action/adventure series that suffered from the realities of the era it was made and a very tight budget. Buck Rodgers WAS a disco trainwreck that tried to cash in on ever trope and gimmick late 70s ever learned. And both suffered from the producers completely half-assing it by the second ep.