Explore the A shaped halls

This week Sci Fi offers up a new panoramic tour of the Battlestar Galactica sets at scifi.com/battlestar/tour

You will need Quicktime 7 installed, either for Apple or PC.

The virtual tour consists of 35 linked medium resolution cubic panoramas. I found 35 locations during my visit, but there may be even more tucked away. All of the sets are dramatically lit as if ready for shooting. If you see something interesting, often you can simply click to go there. Many of these locations are the same hallways recycled into three virtual decks and you'll recognize this corner or that corridor from dozens of episodes. A noticeable omission is the sick bay.

Here's just a few highlights.

Make your way into the hangar bay and you'll be able to climb into the cockpits of both the Mk II and Mk VII Vipers. Don't look too closely, you might spy some vinyl duct tape inside the Mk VII. Now there's a spaceworthy airtight seal. Alas you can only look at, but not touch Kara's pristine Viper. No touching the mythos bub.

Stand behind the podium in the pilot's ready room and look left. There's an LSO landing scoreboard with a list of pilots. Helo is listed at the top as a Mk VII Viper pilot.

Wander into Adama's quarters and stand behind his big leather desk chair. Browse the bookshelf behind and you'll notice one of the hardbound book spines is just barely readable. The book is Exploring Our Living Planet by Dr. Robert Ballard of televised shipwreck discovery fame, such as the Titanic. The National Geographic Press logo at the spine's bottom is disguised by a faux Colonial publisher sticker. (Many of Adama's other books are volumes from the Reader's Digest Condensed series)

A big thank you to the crew at Sci Fi and BSG for compiling this virtual tour for fans. It's a nice respite of geeky fun from the villager's blood lust to airlock Gaeta.

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