Fall Guide to Good TV: Battlestar Galactica: The Plan

(Two-hour special in November on SyFy)

This prequel movie, directed by Edward James Olmos, will clarify some of Galactica’s unanswered questions, namely the Cylons’ titular genocidal stratagem. Events from the first two seasons will be shown from the Cylons’ perspective, at last explaining the meaning of “they have a plan.”