Pyramid - Cards or Sport?

[sideofzen.livejournal.com]

I have a question about Pyramid. Is it a card game or a sport?

It seems to be commonly referred to as a card game the pilots play off duty, but I've also seen it used as the game that Kara played before she injured her knee and entered the Academy. I think Katee Sackhoff mentioned something about that in an interview, but I could be wrong.

Anyway, is there an answer to this? How was Pyramid used in TOS?

This is bothering me. Help. =P

Comments

[widget285.livejournal.com]

Actually, Ron Moore explained this in the most recent podcast. In the original series Pyramid was the name of the card game and Triad was the name of the basketball/handball hybrid sport they played. Ron Moore mentioned that he misremembered and ended up reversing them so that in the new series Pyramid is a sport (Kara's backstory is purportedly that she was on a Pyramid scholarship and blew out her knee. It as afterwards she discovered flying) and although the card game is never mentioned by name it is TRiad by default.

[sideofzen.livejournal.com]

Ah.. I see. Thank you!

You've put my mind at ease. :)

[rhi-silverflame.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I seem to recall reading an interview -- though damn if I can find the link now, and I've been trying -- that corroborates this.

At any rate, when Helo asks if anyone checked out the Pyramid game on Gemenon, the context seems to be of a spectator sport. Not that you can't be a spectator at a card game, but . . . *shrugs*

[widget285.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I remember Helo's comment and didn't quite understand it. Was he going off to play in some high stakes poker game? It makes sense now.

[woodface]

Oh man. *mutters and needs to go change fics*

*shakes fist at Ron Moore*

[djfanboy.livejournal.com]

In the original series, Pyramid was the card game and Triad was the favored sport. (Two 2-man teams in speedos and bike helmets duke it out in a square-walled playing field to get a rubber ball and slam it into one of four goal-like holes (one in each wall) about 9 feet above the ground.)

Not exactly sure how it's used in this version. In the miniseries, during the card game, Helo asked if anyone saw the pick-up game of Pyramid on Gemenon. Triad hasn't even been mentioned and no one has identified the card game they play with a specific name, though with the pentagonal cards it has all the properties of the original's Pyramid.

So, not sure what's what in that regard. Someone ask Ron Moore?

[djfanboy.livejournal.com]

Posted this before I saw the above two responses. Thanks for the info!

[cobaltbluetony.livejournal.com]

Not to nitpick, but the cards are hexagonal (6-sided), not pentagonal (5-sided). I'm sure you knew, though ;-)

[cobaltbluetony.livejournal.com]

Incidentally, the Cylon basestars in TOS were 5-segmented. FYI.

[djfanboy.livejournal.com]

I meant that... :)