'GALACTICA 1980': EARTH EXPLORATIONS!

The skies of Earth are now penetrated by a different kind of flying vehicle than the norm - the Colonial Vipers of the Battlestar Galactica, newly arrived to carefully check out the human civilisation and assess its technological strength, in a nice effects composite shot from Galactica 1980.

CLASSIC ART: EXPLORING CALIFORNIA!

Finally, the Colonial fleet has located that mythical planet of Earth, but they'll get a shock when they discover just what its populace and technology are like, as Galactican scouts Troy and Dillon soon discover in this great cover art by David Schleinkofer for the 1980 Berkley Books' Battlestar Galactica novel 5: Galactica Discovers Earth, adapted and expanded by Glen A. Larson and Michael Resnick. Whether one likes Galactica 1980 or not, the cover art is better than most of the actual onscreen adventures of that short-lived season.