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a human-cylon baby and their efforts towards this including trying to get the two characters to fall in love.

The story line of the fleet mainly consists of their continued efforts to escape the cylons that are tracking them and other needs of the fleet such shortages in fuel, water and even mutiny. As the series carries on other cylons within the fleet make themselves present and eventually leave the series with a very climatic cliff-hanger style ending.

All though the series takes an awful lot of ideas and concepts from the original series it has been vastly updated and the background of not only the characters has been fleshed out much more, but the whole history and concepts of both the human and cylon races are far more detailed than seen usually in other sci-fi shows.

A good majority of the show is filmed with a documentary style feel to it so the cameras movement really makes you feel like you as a viewer are more involved in what is actually happening in the show. As far as effects are concerned they certainly went whole hog with this one everything from the space battles to the massively overhauled cylon look is top notch and would not be out of place in many of the top Hollywood sci-fi flicks of today.

The show does include many violent and mildly bloody scenes; there are also a number of sexual based scenes within the show as well so I wouldn't recommend this to a younger audience.

Despite its differences to the original series the two programmes to have one common factor between them which is actor Richard Hatch who fans of the original will remember as "Apollo". In the new version he takes the part of Tom Zarek the former terrorists and now political leader for one of the colonies of man.

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