Plot Summary for Rogue One (minor spoilers)

In order to stop the Empire, Derek Wildstar disguises himself as a storm trooper and infiltrates the Enterprise. With the help of a feather-haired alien named Hawk (the last of his race) they steal the holodisk with the secret plans from Emperor Ming.

The Daleks corner them on the mining ship Red Dwarf, but they escape with help from a young man named Ken Washio. Traveling in secret, they return to the Nostromo with the plans, thus allowing the Rebellion to build a Super Dimensional Fortress Macross of their own so that they can fight off the Cylons.

Did I forget anything?




The reference are, in order:
1. Star Wars (The Empire)
2. Starblazers/Space Battleship Yamato (Wildstar)
3. Star Wars (storm trooper)
4. Star Trek (Enterprise)
5. Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (Hawk)
5. Flash Gordon (Emperor Ming the Merciless)
6. Doctor Who (Daleks)
7. Red Dwarf (Red Dwarf)
8. Battle of the Planets/Science Ninja Team Gatchaman (Ken Washio)
9. Alien (the Nostromo)
10. Star Wars (the Rebellion)
11. Robotech (Super Dimensional Fortress Macross)
12. Battlestar Galactica (Cylons)

It's a basically a free-association map of the science fiction influences from my youth.

They look like us now

I have a theory.

Most of you are familiar with the recent Battlestar Galactica show, which as you know was a fictionalized retelling of an earlier pair of documentaries produced in the late seventies and early eighties. The first documentary told the story of the survivors of the Twelve Colonies and their search for the fabled "lost" thirteenth colony, Earth. The second documentary examined their arrival on Earth and their attempts to keep Earth safe from the Cylons - the same robotic forces which had destroyed the Twelve Colonies.

What the Colonials didn't know was that the Cylons were already on Earth. Apparently their hostility was reserved for the humans of the Twelve Colonies. Earth humanity was considered harmless, blameless, or simply too ignorant to merit destruction. So, while the crew of the Galactica struggled to keep Earth safe from the Cylons, the Cylons worked quietly in the background to save Earth humanity from itself.

They set up front companies to disguise their influence, and either found or created human(-seeming) proxies to be their spokespeople. Probably the best known of these was Knight Industries, which developed a very effective working partnership between a human and a Cylon under its FLAG program.

No, I'm not making this up. The FLAG program had its own documentary, though it was more of a PR exercise than the ones devoted to the Battlestar and its crew. Let me find a sample...

Here. Look at this, and tell me it's not a Cylon: