BSG Inspired AgroShip

QUOTE: Originally posted by Vilkata What was the first "agro ship" in sci-fi movies or television?

I have no clue. I'm pretty certain that "Silent Running" was the first movie dedicated to showcasing an agroship, tho.

QUOTE: What came first? BSG, or Silent Running?

Easy - "Silent Running". The footage from the beginning of "The Magnificent Warriors" (which I just watched last night!) was from SR, just reversed - we see the three ships from the scene in SR where they're going from the left to the right of our screens, but in "Warriors" they were going right to left. They even inserted Raiders and Vipers in to stock footage from SR, as a matter of fact.

QUOTE: I think I am one of the few who actually really enjoyed Silent Running. Oh - and for those who don't know, it has absolutely nothing to do with submarines.

I enjoyed it enough to have ordered it a couple months back from Amazon.com and watched it twice since receiving it. It's a good movie, IMNSHO. Sure, it's about the environment from a time when "hippies" were all outraged over how mankind was treating the forests and dumping pollution into the atmosphere, so is a sort of "tree hugger" flick, but the message is pretty reasonable, IMNSHO, the characters - such as we see - are believable and it has one of the biggest studio models ever created. What's not to like?

What was the first "agro ship" in sci-fi movies or television?

What came first? BSG, or Silent Running? I think I am one of the few who actually really enjoyed Silent Running. Oh - and for those who don't know, it has absolutely nothing to do with submarines.

---Vil.

I like your idea.
CFR

Yessir, I too was in the 5th grade that year. Those were some good times, man. Never found a Monogram kit at that time for the battlestar, but eventually got my hands on one that a friend had built and traded to me for... something. I don't remember what it was, tho. Still have that basestar, too.

BTW, thanks for the kind words, fellas. Appreciate it.

When I was a kid in 5th grade, BSG (original) was on the air. I made drawings of space fleets that year and I just thought the agro-ships were really cool. I hope you post pics when you finish it.

By the Lords of Kobol,

Dave

Cool idea with that Jeffrey Thanks for sharing it with us.