This would allow them to weed out many supporting characters who were now considered superfluous, including Colonel Tigh and Cassiopeia, which would bring down production costs.

The only major characters to return from the original series would be Commander Adama, Colonel Boomer (replacing Tigh), Apollo, Starbuck and Lord Baltar.

The Council votes this suggestion down, so Baltar steals a ship capable of time-travel and heads into Earth's past to carry out his plan anyway.

After the pilot was completed, the network was unhappy with the time travel aspects of the story, which was intended to be an ongoing premise in each episode as the Colonials chased Xavier through different periods in Earth's history.

Larson and Bellisario reluctantly agreed, and the series instead became focused on Troy's and Dillon's attempts to protect some Colonial children on Earth.

Therefore, teams of Colonial warriors are covertly sent to the planet to work incognito with various members of the scientific community, hoping to advance Earth's technology.

Meanwhile, Adama sends a group of children from the Galactica fleet (the Super Scouts) to Earth in order to begin the process of integrating with the population.

Within the plot, Commander Adama is now shown as a very weak leader, often at a loss as to how to proceed and frequently turning to Dr. Zee for advice.

Zee in turn, who is a young teen boy, at times even gives Adama direct orders and appears to actually be the one in charge.

The series also suffered low ratings because the show was aired at a time slot otherwise reserved for either child-friendly-based, informational, educational, or news-related programming (Sunday, 7:00 PM/6:00 PM Central), and was cancelled after ten episodes, many of which were multi-part stories.

The final episode shown was "The Return of Starbuck", which featured a guest appearance by Dirk Benedict from the original series.