Did the Galactica eventually find Earth?
In his interview in Epi-Log Journal #14, Glen Larson argued that the events of Galactica 1980, including the discovery of Earth, could be explained away and subsequently forgotten: If I have my way, Galactica 1980 would certainly be Starbuck’s nightmare, and we’d go back to the original concept. I guess if Dallas could turn a whole season into a dream we could make Starbuck wake up in the middle of the night after having had a nightmare about discovering Earth. More likely, he argued, the series could be explained away as a computer projection of what the discovery of Earth could be like if they’re not careful, not unlike the simulated Cylon attack sequence in the Galactica 1980 pilot. It should nevertheless be taken as given that the Galactica would eventually find its destination. Earth’s location was revealed to the Galacticans in “War of the Gods”: Earth — quadrant alpha, 19 million sectars by Epsilon vector 22 on a circular reckoning course of 000 point 9 in a star system of nine
