Battlestar Galactica Props & Costumes » Set Pieces

Pegasus CIC Console

Joe Beaudoin Jr. — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 02:25:20 +0000

As part of the first auction, we will be selling off one of the venerable consoles from Pegasus‘s CIC. This console is one of the one-manned standing stations in front of the tactical plots, and consoles of its kind have been manned by Colonel Jack Fisk in “Razor“, Mei “Freaker” Firelli in “Pegasus” and “Resurrection Ship“, and even by Lieutenant Hoshi in Season 2′s “The Captain’s Hand“.

A Pegasus/Valkyrie standalone CIC console.

Later, this console makes a fleeting appearance in Valkyrie‘s CIC in Season 3′s “Hero” during the flashback sequences when Commander William Adama (wearing Admiral’s pins, nonetheless!) is on his secret mission to the Armistice Line a year before the Fall of the Twelve Colonies.

In fact, since the appearance was so fleeting, you can see an exclusive never-before-seen photo of Valkyrie‘s CIC.

Valkyrie's CIC. Look familiar? It should...

... because it's just a redressed version of Pegasus's CIC set, which you see above. Voila! Magic!

The console consists of four pieces: a wireless multimedia keyboard, an LCD screen, a non-functioning dummy telephone, and a gimmicky speaker panel made from a severely economical phone answering machine. The console includes the VGA and power cable for the monitor, but not the wireless receiver for the keyboard.

Here’s a peek at some of the low-res digitized sketches and construction plans for this console. Note that these sketches will not be included in the first auction.

Construction plans for the console's stand.

Construction/concept plans for the console's components.

CIC Set Piece Concepts

Joe Beaudoin Jr. — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 04:20:38 +0000

Following yesterday’s article on the general CIC designs, we have a few concepts from Ken Rabehl for specific set pieces. Here they are.

The center console concept. Basically, a lot smaller than the final version… and people need to stand. Oh the pain, the pain.

And the nicely lit version from the miniseries.

Concepts for the “Space Ship Locator” (left) and the navgiational plexi-panel (right). The locator would be the (obvious) predacessor to the DRADIS system. The nav panel would make it in the series in its general form, as you see below.



The Blackbird
Joe Beaudoin Jr. — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 08:31:00 +0000


The Blackbird is a one-of-a-kind, prototype stealth ship built by Galen Tyrol and various Galactica crew members. It is introduced in Season 2, and is destroyed three episodes after its introduction.


Series appearances


The Blackbird makes its appearance in the Season 2 episode “Flight of the Phoenix“, where Galen Tyrol decides to build a ship to offset Galactica‘s losses in terms of fighter craft. Initially conceived as a replacement Viper, Tyrol draws up plans for this ship and begins building it, despite the doubts of his fellow crew mates. However, the project ends up boosting morale amidst the deteriorating conditions, and the ship becomes something completely different than just another Viper replacement: a stealth ship. After a suspenseful test-fight by Kara Thrace, the ship is christened the Laura in honor of Laura Roslin.

It is pivotal to the Pegasus and resurrection ship arc in the middle of the second season.

After the introduction of a second, surviving battlestar named Pegasus, Peter Laird—the engineer who built the DDG-62 engines and survivor of the Fall of the Twelve Colonies forcibly pressed into service by Admiral Cain—inspects the Blackbird, declaring it the ugliest thing he’d ever seen.

After Admiral Cain and Commander Adama agree to attack a then-unknown ship in the Cylon fleet trailing Galactica’s Fleet, Kara Thrace uses the Blackbird and, equipped with a surveillance package, is able to take stunning recon photos of the resurrection ship. Upon returning from this mission in “Resurrection Ship, Part I“, she discovers that the Viper squadrons from both battlestars are nearly ready to wipe the other out. Discovering that things have nearly gone to hell between Cain and Adama over Galen Tyrol and Karl “Helo” Agathon, who assaulted—and killed—Alastair Thorne as he was raping Sharon Agathon neé Valerii as an “interrogation” technique. As Thorne was a Pegasus crewmember, Cain exercised her authority and sought to execute Tyrol and Helo, itself placed on hold after Thrace transmits pictures from her recon mission to Pegasus.

After both sides agree to a truce, the two battlestars lead an offensive against the pursuing Cylon fleet in “Resurrection Ship, Part II“. During this battle, Lee “Apollo” Adama pilots the Blackbird—armed with a missile—and is able to take out the resurrection ship’s FTL drive, thereby allowing the Vipers to destroy the resurrection ship with near impunity. However, Apollo himself is unable to participate further in the battle as the Blackbird collides with a Raptor. Apollo is able to eject, but his flight suit is punctured by debris, leading to his near death—he is rescued by a SAR bird after the battle and resuscitated. (The effects of Lee Adama’s close call with death during this operation manifest themselves in “Black Market“.)


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