How the “Star Cruiser Galaxy” series ended: we explain the meaning of the final with spoilers

Ended in 2009 by a denouement of three parts called “Twilight” ((Dawn), The Star Cruiser Galaxy put an end to the history of the surviving settlers, their confrontation with Sylons and attempts to find a new house. And although technically the public received answers to most plot questions, the last agreement of the series left the room for interpretations, religious allusions and philosophical guesses.

This is what eventually happened – and what all this means.

The last battle

By the time of the final, the Melkweg literally falls apart: the fleet loses quickly resources, the ship itself is not resistant to the load and Adamal Adama no longer has the opportunity to postpone complex solutions.

The most valuable object is a child – a girl named Hera, a hybrid of a person and Sylon. It is abducted by the hostile faction of Sylones, and it has hope for both parties: some want to study her DNA to guarantee the future of an artificial race, others – to return alive and put an end to the war.

The team of volunteers, including Adam, Starbak and other heroes of the series, makes a desperate sortie in a dangerous zone to save the girl. There is a fight, in which the Sylons first agree with a ceasefire, but at the last minute everything separates. One of the most important opponents – Kevil – ends with him and a chaotic attack leads to the launch of nuclear core heads. In circumstances of full destabilization, the Starbak introduces the coordinates – and the Galaxy makes a last jump.

And here is a turn

The ship is on another planet. This is the earth. Not alternative, not symbolic – but the same, real, but prehistoric. The remains of a group of settlers decide not to repeat the mistakes of civilization, refuse technology, to destroy the fleet and start a new life alongside primitive humanity. Hera, as the last scene confirms, becomes Eva – the foreman of the modern human race, which combines human and Sainonian descent.

Starbak, who has returned to life earlier under mysterious circumstances, disappears. No explanation is given: she simply performs her “mission” and leaves. It is openly said that she is being sent a supernatural by ‘someone’ that exactly does not consciously specify the series.

In the last scene, the action is transferred to modernity. Scientists announce that Eve’s find will continue to exist and the characters will discuss whether humanity will repeat his path of self -destruction.

What does it all mean?

The maker of the Ronald D. Moore series deliberately left direct answers. He emphasized that the end of the series is partly metaphysical: the idea is that humanity gets a second chance – or something that seems like a chance.

Musical All By The WatchtowerPlaying a key role in the plot was conceived as a metaphor for an eternal, repeating cycle. As Moore himself said:

“Music, his structure and words are something divine. It lives in a collective unconscious, appears from nowhere, crosses the era and culture … This song is not just a subject, it is part of the mechanism of the universe.”

The final made a sharp rejection for a part of the audience. For fans of science fiction who appreciate technical logic and political drama, the turn to mysticism and religious allegory seemed too sharp. This is of course not the level of the end of “staying alive” – but definitely one of the most contradictory serial finals of our time.