Fans of Battlestar Galactica have something else to look forward to as the science fiction series returns for a fourth season.  As we reported earlier, Lucy Lawless will be reprising her role as D'Anna Biers.  However, she isn't the only one returning for the final season.

According to show runners for the SciFi Channel series, they are trying to get back British actor Mark Sheppard to grace the concluding season of Battlestar Galactica.

Sheppard was introduced as Romo Lampkin towards the tail end of Season 3 in the episode “The Son Also Rises.”  He portrayed a highly capable, although ethically questionable lawyer in the Fleet.  Laura Roslin and Admiral Adama appointed him as Gaius Baltar's Public Defender after Baltar's previous attorney was assassinated in a bombing.  As a lawyer, he used deceit to manipulate others into revealing information.  He was also a kleptomaniac with tendencies of psychological lying.

Aside from Lawless and Sheppard, Katee Sackhoff will also be returning to Battlestar Galactica.  However, she won't be playing the same character everyone saw in the first three seasons of the show.  In fact, Sackhoff won't be playing the character that was originally intended for the fourth season.

On the series, Sackhoff portrayed the gifted pilot Captain Kara "Starbuck" Thrace.  Her Viper previously exploded as witnessed by Apollo, with no signs that she survived.  In the cliffhanger Season 3 finale “Crossroads, Part II,” she reappeared in a Viper, telling Apollo not to "freak out" that it is really her and that she has been to Earth, and will show them the way.

The reason for her sudden resurrection has yet to be revealed.  Ronald D. Moore, the creator and executive producer of Battlestar Galactica has confirmed in an interview that the character of Kara Thrace will return in the fourth season of the series but has also emphasized that she is not a hallucination, such as the Number Six that Baltar sees.  During the Comic-Con International in San Diego, Sackhoff revealed that her character would operate at an emotional state much higher than what she had before.


-Kris De Leon, BuddyTV Staff Columnist
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