Day: June 13, 1979

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Omega Factor

The Undiscovered Country

The Omega FactorParanormal researcher Tom Crane has first-hand knowledge of his subject matter: he’s been experiencing very disturbing dreams and disjointed images. One of his investigations leads him to a man named Edward Drexel, said to have considerable powers of his own; when Tom offhandedly suggests that Drexel use his powers to help solve the case of a missing woman, Drexel says he has no wish to search for a body. Tom calls Drexel’s bluff, asking how he knows the missing woman is dead, and the interview comes to a swift and chilly end. Immediately afterward, Tom begins experiencing inexplicable visions with little or no context. Trying to track down the clues to his visions has tragic consequences, and a surprising outcome: an invitation (if a somewhat forcefully-worded one) to join Department 7, a government bureau devoted to tracking those with supernatural powers.

The Omega FactorOrder the Serieswritten by Jack Gerson
directed by Paddy Russell
music by Anthony Isaac

Cast: James Hazeldine (Tom Crane), Louise Jameson (Anne Reynolds), John Carlisle (Roy Martindale), Brown Derby (Andrew Scott-Erskine), Cyril Luckham (Edward Drexel), Joanna Tope (Julia Crane), Colin Douglas (Alfred Oliphant), Denis Agnew (Alistair), Nicholas Coppin (Michael Crane), Raymond Cross (Harry Gilchrist), Natasha Gerson (Morag)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

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Battlestar Galactica (New Series) Season 4

Revelations

Battlestar GalacticaWith both President Roslin and the newly-arrived Admiral Adama aboard the base ship, D’anna tips the balance in the Cylons’ favor: she takes Roslin hostage and demands that Adama escort her back to Galactica, where she announces that the final five must be allowed to come to the base ship of their own accord to rejoin their own kind. Shuttle traffic is not to be slowed down, examined closely or stopped. Lee Adama, in one of his first acts as the new president of the colonies, is forced to acceed to D’anna’s demands – and then orders his father to undertake a risky rescue mission which, if success looks impossible, will end in the destruction of the base ship and the hostages aboard. One by one, the Cylons in the fleet reveal themselves: Tory goes to the base ship supposedly to bring Roslin’s medication to her, and admit her true nature at the same time. Tigh admits to Adama that he’s a Cylon, and goes to await his fate as Adama turns the final corner into a nervous breakdown. As they try to figure out why a new signal has brought them to Starbuck’s viper, Tyrol and Sam Anders are arrested before Starbuck’s eyes for being Cylons, after Tigh reveals them to Lee. Lee threatens to airlock Tigh, Anders and Tyrol unless D’anna calls off the hostage situation; instead she locks all of the base ship’s nukes on the civilian vehicles in the fleet. Starbuck finds the source of the signal that drew the newly-revealed Cylons to her ship: it’s the ship itself, its instruments somehow pointing the way to Earth. Lee opts to share this information with the Cylons, which ends the hostage crisis, and Cylons and Colonials set a course for Earth.

But the next crisis to strike the fleet is the fact that they actually get there.

written by Bradley Thompson & David Weddle
directed by Michael Rymer
music by Bear McCreary

Guest Cast: Michael Hogan (Colonel Tigh), Aaron Douglas (Tyrol), Tahmoh Penikett (Helo), Michael Trucco (Anders), Alessandro Juliani (Gaeta), Kandyse McClure (Dualla), Lucy Lawless (D’anna Biers), Callum Keith Rennie (Leoben Conoy), Rekha Sharma (Tory Foster), Bodie Olmos (Hotdog), Keegan Connor Tracy (Jeanne), Brad Drybrough (Hoshi), Vincent Gale (Lt. Peter Laird), Don Thompson (SP3 Anthony Figurski), Alexandra Thomas (Hera), Lara Gilchrist (Paulla Schatter), Heather Doerksen (Sgt. Brandy Harder), Finn R. Devitt (baby Nicky), Sonja Bennett (SP3 Margie Brasko), Barry Norling (Adama’s Corporal)

LogBook entry by Earl Green