None of the previous attempts to remake or continue the story of '' Battlestar Galactica '' by Tom DeSanto , Bryan Singer , and original series star Richard Hatch , were successful . From the mid-1990s onwards , actor Richard Hatch ( Captain Apollo from the original version of the series ) made numerous efforts to revive the series , including co-writing several novels and a comic book series , and even went as far as to produce a proof-of-concept trailer called '' The Second Coming '' . Hatch 's campaign was based on the continuation of the original series , set several years after the final episode . DeSanto and Singer 's planned version , which actually went into pre-production before being delayed and then scrapped following the events of the 9/11 terrorist attacks of 2001 , was also a continuation , set some 25 years after the original series . Both versions ignored the events that occurred in '' Galactica 1980 ''
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