Battlestar Galactica

=== Aftermath ===
The first season of the main series started its first-time run in January 2005 and overlapped that of ''Enterprise''{{'}}s last, the only time both franchises did so in their histories. Received to great acclaim, re-imagined BSG soundly beat ''Star Trek'' in all ratings categories. {{el|thefutoncritic.com/ratings/2005/01/19/viewers-embrace-sci-fis-galactica-17669/20050119scifi01}} Prime universe ''Star Trek'' was at that time actually in deep trouble. Both ''Enterprise'' and the 2002 movie ''Nemesis'' were poorly received by the fanbase, because of perceived continuity and canon violations and the overall disappointment with story premises, which were considered weak and in violation of what they deemed "[[Gene Roddenberry#Roddenberry canon|Roddenberry canon]]". In countless contemporary internet blogs the more vocal fans vehemently voiced their displeasure, with the more fanatical ones even going as far as to organize an on-line petition to have ''Star Trek'' showrunners [[Rick Berman]] and [[Brannon Braga]], both Ron Moore's former colleagues on ''Star Trek'', removed from control. (See ''[[Franchise#Demise of "The Franchise" in the prime universe|Demise of "The Franchise" in the prime universe]]'') It was now that the success of Moore's ''Galactica'' came into play.

Even though franchise management had already decided to terminate ''Star Trek'' prime for internal studio reasons, both cast and the production staff of ''Enterprise'' had not been informed of this yet and were being kept in the dark &ndash; even though they had their suspicions. When they were eventually formally informed, management used their former colleague's ratings successes against them as the in-house justification for the cancellation decision. However, [[Larry Nemecek]] has &ndash; after he had taken a closer look at the ratings and citing the changing television landscape of the early 2000s &ndash; noted,
<blockquote>"Here's the dirty little secret about ''Enterprise'': It's the only year that ''Enterprise'' overlapped with Ron Moore's ''Battlestar Galactica'', which we all know now was a breakout hit. It was great for Ron, it was great for that fandom. He reinvented an old show. Tons of new fans. They loved the darker, grittier storytelling. It's a very post-9/11 mood, broke out of the box. But ''Galactica'' was on Syfy, So even though you have UPN-slash-CW, which was a broken, crippled, little network here, which was like a cable net, not reaching 80 percent of the country, and Syfy is on cable. Syfy is a smaller pond, but it gets all the buzz, it gets all the attention. "Oh, my God, this huge breakout show. Why can't the ''Star Trek''s do what ''Galactica'' is doing?" Well, the little secret is by the time you actually compare numbers to numbers, that last year of ''Enterprise'' overlapping with the first year of ''Galactica'', when it was a breakout hit, ''Enterprise'' was still pulling in a million more viewers a week than ''Galactica''. So you talk about franchise fatigue, you talk about poor, little shriveled-up ''Enterprise'' and the ''Star Trek'' franchise, and fans are deserting it in droves. ''Galactica'' was a huge, great breakout show. But it still didn't have the numbers that, uh..., the one year they had head-to-head competition-- Not to make it a competition between Ron and his former ''Star Trek'' franchise, but just seeing what people were watching, the numbers for ''Enterprise'' were still above what the "hit" Syfy show of the year was." (''[[Before Her Time: Decommissioning Enterprise]]'', Part 3: "Final Approach")</blockquote>
Unwittingly and unintended, it was one of the very few times, if not the only one, that the one franchise directly influenced the other in a negative manner, even though it was not even the root cause, as implied by Nemecek. Worse still, an increasing number of ''Star Trek'' fans started to tune in on re-imagined BSG, and used the series as a prime example of how a proper science fiction show should be made, equally voiced vocally on countless internet blogs at the time as well. For a short period in time BSG eclipsed ''Star Trek'' in popularity, until the advent of the first 2009 alternate reality film, that premiered in the same year that the re-imagined BSG main series was concluded, and which managed to largely rekindle "Trekdom".

In contrast to the original incarnation, and the somewhat lackluster reception of ''The Plan'' and ''Caprica'' notwithstanding, Universal Studios was pleased with re-imagined BSG and entered into negotiations with creator Larson for a remake of the original 1978 theatrical feature in February 2009, one month before the re-imagined main series ended its run on 20 March. ("Universal in talks for 'Battlestar' movie", ''The Hollywood Reporter'', 20 February 2009) Essentially slated to become a third live-action incarnation of the BSG franchise, Bryan Singer was for a second time contracted as director/co-producer in August 2009 for the project ("Bryan Singer to direct 'Battlestar' film", ''The Hollywood Reporter'', 13 August 2009), who subsequently commented after a 12 August 2012 script rewrite, "''It will exist, I think, quite well between the Glen Larson and Ron Moore universes.''" {{el|ign.com/videos/2012/08/02/battlestar-galactica-movie-bryan-singer-update}} However, development was slow and Singer had to again leave the project due to other motion picture obligations. The project appears to be still in the development stage, as Universal has appointed a new team of producers, writers and director in 2016. {{bl|starpulse.com/news/index.php/2016/02/12/the-battlestar-galactica-movie-signs-t}} {{el|deadline.com/2016/06/battlestar-galactica-francis-lawrence-lisa-joy-universal-pictures-1201770133/}} Creator Glen Larson was by that time no longer involved either because of his death in 2014.

Less well fared NBCUniversal's broadcaster SyFy Channel after re-imagined BSG had finished its run. As the first of its "SyFy Original Series", the broadcaster seemed to have been taken off-guard by its huge success, and failed to deliver afterwards in the public eye, causing the broadcaster to slip considerably in ratings for an extended period of time. It took the network over six years of arduous restructuring and formula rethinking in order to slowly finds its way up again. {{el|vox.com/2016/12/7/13862330/syfy-network-2016-shows-comeback-bsg}} Ironically, SyFy had in 2007 acquired the after-the-fact rights to ''Enterprise'', which began airing on 8 January 2007 in its first US syndicated rerun, alongside the series some held responsible for its demise. Original network [[UPN]] had been terminated as well, shortly after it had cancelled ''Enterprise'', once considered its flagship when that series premiered in 2000.

Similar in concept to the 2006 ''[[40 Years of Star Trek: The Collection]]'' [[Star Trek auctions|''Star Trek'' auction]], the aforementioned Alec Peters managed to secure for his auction house [[Propworx|Propworx, Inc.]] the commission from Universal to auction off the series' production assets, after the main series of re-imagined BSG had wrapped, in two specialized  auctions held on 17-18 January, and on 8-10 May 2009 at The Pasadena Convention Center, followed up by a third, smaller 27 August 2011 one after ''Caprica'' too was cancelled in 2010. {{el|liveauctioneers.com/catalog/26055_propworx-battlestar-galactica-iii}} Based on the strength of their BSG auctions, Propworx became in 2010 also the commissioned auctioneer for the assets of the defunct ''[[Star Trek: The Experience]]'' [[Star Trek attractions|attraction]] as well. Also starting in that year were a series of smaller specialized ''Star Trek'' auctions, in which Propworx auctioned off the production assets retained/saved by former ''Star Trek'' production staffers, including those of concurrent former BSG production staffers such as Doug Drexler as well as Gary Hutzel in the more recent ones.

[[File:BBT George Takei and Katee Sackoff lamenting being typecast.jpg|thumb|Science fiction icons lamenting being typecast]]
In the popular, heavily ''Star Trek'' referencing, sitcom ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]'' (S04E04: "The Hot Troll Deviation", 2010) lead actress Katee Sackhoff made an appearance as her ''Galactica'' alter ego Starbuck, conjured up by series' principal character Howard Wolowitz, who has the hots for Starbuck. Sackhoff/Starbuck, miffed at being the object of adolescent sexual fantasies &ndash; having already appeared as a figment of his overheated imagination in the prior episode "The Vengeance Formulation" (S03E09) &ndash; tries to gives Wolowitz romantic advise but is shortly thereafter joined by an equally imaginary [[George Takei]] in his [[Hikaru Sulu]] outfit from {{film|4}}, trying to do the same. Sackhoff/Starbuck starts bickering with Takei/Sulu, questioning his credentials to give Wolowitz romantic advise, while poking fun at Takei's homosexuality. Both, however, are also lamenting and exchanging notes on being typecast as Starbuck and Sulu respectively.

In stark contrast to the ''Star Wars'' and ''Babylon 5'' franchises, rivalry between the fanbases of ''Battlestar Galactica'' and ''Star Trek'' had been comparatively light, if there was any to speak of at all. The reasons for this can be found in the disparity between the two basic premises, the fact that &ndash; the last season of ''Enterprise'' excepted &ndash; there had been no overlap of first time airings, the large overlap of former ''Star Trek'' production staff in re-imagined BSG, the circumstance that re-imagined BSG has served as a temporary refuge for "trekkies" disenchanted with ''Enterprise''/''Nemesis'', or any combination thereof.

That the ''Battlestar Galactica'' fanbase has become more modest than its ''Star Trek'' counterpart, became evident in September 2015, when the webmaster of the original Battlestar Wiki, Joe Beaudoin Jr., announced, "''Due to diminishing interest in BSG and the fact that most of the main contributors have since moved on, I am looking at the possibly of shutting down the website come early next year.''" By March the following year the Wiki, at the time featuring 4,528 articles, had indeed gone dark. {{el|reddit.com/r/BSG/comments/49piv0/bsg_wiki_down}} Nonetheless, diligent fans by then had saved a large part of its contents on the Wayback Machine internet archive, but not all of it (featuring 3,534 articles, about a quarter was lost at first). Two new, from the ground up rebuilt, and different BSG wikis went up a year later (galactica.wikia.com and caprica.wikia.com), though featuring far less content. In early 2017 a cloned live version of the original archived Wiki was put back online as a reference source only at first, but became fully operational again on 11 May 2019 with all articles restored, courtesy Beaudoin himself. {{bsg|Battlestar Wiki:Goo Bath}}

The disparities between the two fanbases notwithstanding, there are several franchise licensees who have served both with their merchandise, which included such companies as, besides Quantum Mechanix, [[FASA]] {{el|boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/6768/battlestar-galactica}}, [[Revell-Monogram]], [[Eaglemoss Collections]], [[Bif Bang Pow!]], and [[Hasbro]]. Additionally, the Sci-fi and fantasy [[Star Trek convention|convention]] company [[Creation Entertainment]], has in equal measure organized specialized conventions for both franchises.

Prolific ''Star Trek'' [[reference book]] authors [[Mark A. Altman]] and his writing partner [[Edward Gross]] have authored an exhaustive work on the history of the entire BSG live-action franchise as well, modeled after their recent ''[[The Fifty-Year Mission: The First 25 Years]]'' and ''[[The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years]]'' ''Star Trek'' live-action franchise histories. The 720-page work, titled ''So Say We All: The Complete, Uncensored, Unauthorized Oral History of Battlestar Galactica'' (ISBN 9781250128942), was released on 21 August 2018. "So Say We All" refers to an improvised expression introduced in the re-imagined miniseries by Edward James Olmos, going on to become a staple in the subsequent BSG productions. While not as widespread as ''Star Trek''{{'}}s "Beam me up, [[Montgomery Scott|Scotty]]" has become before, it became a popular pop-culture catchphrase as well.