By the time Battlestar Galactica aired its midseason finale in 2008, the 2007-2008 Writers’ Guild strike was over. But on June 13, 2008, the groundbreaking series delivered an episode that was a glimpse into an alternate dimension, one in which Battlestar would have concluded earlier, and on a much darker note. “Revelations” holds up 15 years later, in part because this moody cliffhanger could have been the end of the entire show.
