David Stipes is a two time Emmy Award winner with over 30 years of experience in the film industry in various aspects of visual effects and animation. David created visual effects on Battlestar Galactica, Galactica 1980 and Buck Rogers at Universal Hartland. He also worked as a Visual Effects Supervisor on four Star Trek series: The Next Generation, Voyager, Deep Space Nine, and Enterprise. Marcel Damen talked to him extensively about his career and what he's currently up to.

Child actor Mark Everett, better know to Galactica 1980 fans as one of the Galactica children that crash land on Earth, was shot by the police on December 23, 2008. Mark Everett, who's real name was Manuel Benitez, was wanted by the FBI in connection with the 2004 murder of his girlfriend. In an attempt to end a hostage situation where he held his own son Benjamin at gunpoint, Benitez was killed by the police.