CLASSIC IMAGE: SPORTS (FIGHT) NIGHT!

Triad has always been a bruising, knockabout game since its inception, but things are about to get headier and uglier than usual in this match between Starbuck and Apollo against Flight Sergeant Ortega, during the beginning to Murder on the Rising Star!

CLASSIC IMAGE: UNHEALTHY COMPETITION!

A healthy dose of competitive spirit instead becomes a game of real conflict and violence as Flight Saregeant Ortega's hatred and rivalry with Starbuck intensifies, during the opening of Murder on the Rising Star.

CLASSIC IMAGE: GLAMOROUS SPECTATORS

Galactica's loveliest ladies- Cassiopeia, Athena and Sheba- get together to watch a brutal Triad match unfold, involving a bruised and battered Starbuck facing off against his old enemy, Flight Sergeant Ortega, in the opening scenes of Murder on the Rising Star.

CLASSIC IMAGE: AN OLD SCORE SETTLED

Before becoming best known to Classic TV viewers worldwide as the friendly alien Visitor, Martin (and later his twin brother brother Philip), in Kenneth Johnson's original, well-written Earth invasion  mini-series V, veteran TV actor Frank Ashmore was familiar to Classic GALACTICA fans for his portrayal as the corrupt and totally unlikable Flight Sargent Ortega, who had some serious personality issues with Starbuck after a game of intense Triad, in the classic episode Murder on the Rising Star.

Suffice to say, Ortega's screen time was short lived- having made one too many an enemy in his time within the Colonial Service, resulting in poor old Starbuck unfortunately ending up being Number One Prime Suspect for his blastered demise. Fortunately, Apollo and Boomer were around to prove their friend innocent, and the stressful charges dropped...