‘Battlestar Galactica’ Books Its Final Trip

The Sci-Fi network announced the fourth and final season of Battlestar Galactica will begin on Friday, April 4th at 10 PM Eastern and Pacific, preceded, as usual, by a couple of half hour specials to remind viewers of what’s been going on.

Oddly enough, these specials will feature the likes of Robot Chicken‘s Seth Green and The Soup’s Joel McHale.

This new incarnation of Galactica, which rose phoenix-like out of the cold and deservedly piss-on ashes of the Lorne Greene series affectionately known to Baby Boomers as Battlestar Ponderosa, has won all kinds of awards, including an Emmy and a Peabody. Earlier this winter, Razor, an all-new direct-to-DVD Battlestar movie, hit the shelves. It was a rare thing: a continuity implant that actually worked.

No word on if the Galacticans actually discover Earth and, if so, if they’ll be treated as illegal immigrants.