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Battlestar Stars Remember Their Favorite Moments

By Kathie Huddleston - ON 01/16/09

Some moments stick with you forever. Big moments, like when we learned Boomer was a Cylon or when the Cylons invaded New Caprica and descended upon what was left of the unprepared human race. And small moments, such as when Roslin called Adama because she didn't want to get out of bed and they playfully chatted. So many moments that together make up all that SCI FI's Battlestar Galactica has come to mean to those of us who have followed this astonishing journey.

As the show begins its final 10 episodes on Friday, Jan. 16, at 10 p.m., we talked to the cast to find out what their most profound memories of the groundbreaking series were.

A brief excerpt:



Michael Hogan (Saul Tigh)

He lost an eye while being tortured by the Cylons, killed his wife for collaborating with them, and then, horror of horrors, discovered he was one of them.

"The whole cast was there because we were burying the soldiers. It was the funeral," says Hogan. "Adama talks about how we have to be responsible for the things that we have done and at the end of that, we didn't really know each other any of the cast members, and didn't really know what to expect, especially as far acting, because this was first day of principal photography.

"Adama finishes this speech and then says, 'So say we all,' and I guess we sort of mumbled, 'So say we all.' Eddie [Olmos] kind of looked at all of us and said it again, 'So say we all.' Well, we weren't ready for that so we said, 'So say we all.' And he looked at us and said, 'SO SAY WE ALL.' And he got us all going and it was a chilling, chilling time. It was like, 'Whoa,' and by the end of it the whole room, the hundreds of us are just yelling, "SO SAY WE ALL!" And that wasn't in the script. When that was over you were kind of, 'Whoa boy, we're in for a ride now,' because Eddie just kind of looked at people and said, 'Come on. Let's go. Let's get onboard here. ...' Eddie definitely did take a leadership role right from day one and continued all the way through to the end."