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16 Years Later, ‘Battlestar’ Showrunner Finally Addresses the Show's Biggest Question

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When the beloved sci-fi series Battlestar Galactica aired its three-part finale in 16 years ago, in March of 2009, the series left fans, arguably, with more questions than answers. To this day, BSG remains one of the greatest sci-fi shows of all time, so much so that many fans hardly even remember it was technically a reboot of a 1978 series of the same name. But no matter how great BSG was, and no matter how well it holds up, one question plagues the fans — and also, apparently, plagues Starbuck actress, Katee Sackhoff.

On her podcast, The Sackhoff Show, the actress recently decided to get to the bottom of one of the biggest mysteries in all of Battlestar fandom: “What is Starbuck?” And the person she asked was the man who created the reboot BSG in the first place, writer Ronald D. Moore.

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