Tac - I'm with you, but just the blonde model! Hubba HUBBA! I love the scene in the control room where Balthasar is hanging out of his chair lost in erotica in the midst of all arounhd him! Although a little explanation as to "her" constant invisible presence might be nice. I do have to wonder where thwey got hold of Boomer as a prototype for a Cylon...?
Is it just me, or is Starbuck's stoogie about the most phallic thing the producers could find? How many stoogies aboard a warship? Where will the booze supply come from? Inquiring minds want to know...
Bariman - well...since you mentioned it...I was going by museum standards of today. Museum battleships, etc., for example, are stripped of all armaments, ammo fuel, etc, and and sailed to their destination under a minimal caretaker crew, after which they are placed in the hands of non-military caretakers, often retired military maintenance ratings. There are no warehouses full of WWII ammo or BB parts - the replacement items are often made aboard in the machine shop by copying the original part, and the ammo is sent to be either destroyed or re-manufactured to current service standards. So Galactica would not have had fueled Vipers aboard, nor even fuel at all, nor a combat trained crew, which would have been dispersed to the fleet to fill vacancies. Ooops!
This whole thing would have made much, much better sense at no cost whatsoever to the storyline or budget, to have had the Galactica in space dock undergoing overhaul and refit, a common practice to extend the service lives of military hardware everywhere. The Vipers would not yet have been upgraded or replaced as the new models would go first to active duty vessels. If the Galactica were near the end of her refit, fuel and ammo, etc, would have been aboard, as well as crew and parts for the Viper II's as they would still have been operational until phased out by replacements. And the crew, nearing resumption of fleet duty status, would be trained.
Considering the distances being travelled, what vessels would there have been that were without FTL capacity, except for local shuttles, freighters, etc.? The Twelve Colonies are widely scattered in space. We know this because the size of the fleet area defense area dictates a supply station which can only be reached by FTL drive. Colonial One - which title BTW really needs some definite explanation as it is horiribly out of context by referring to a long-lost civilization on an entirely mythical planet called Earth - was just the local equivalent of a charter jetliner taking the suits to see a museum ship in orbit, but it was FTL equippped. Why not just have vessels that were damaged and couldn't jump? Answer: bad scripting solution to the necessary "pathos of war" quota.
As far as Ragnar goes, no supply depot anywhere is going to be carrying a complete load-out of parts for an obsolete Battlestar, and where was the service and maintenance crew of the Ragnar station itself? A place like that still needs heat, light, air and so forth, and equipment breaks down, lights burn out, seals leak and so forth, requiring a human maintenance crew. Since the site was "secret", how did a solitary Cylon get there? If he was maintenance crew and killed the others, then the Galactica folks might have wondered about their absence, and since when do you approach a secret site storing weapons of mass destruction without communication or security of any kind? Well, ooops - again!
Burning Question Of The Day: How long has it been since the original Cylon-Colonial Wars?
This is a real fly in the Galactica's peanut butter, because it has been long enough for the Galactica and its Vipers to become obsolete, long enough for Galactica to be consigned to museum status, but not long enough to retire Adama or for Apollo to age any, not to mention Boomer, Starbuck, etc. Long enough, however, for the Cylons to have developed an entirely new generation of everything and to make a quantum leap in robot design clear up to android standards, androids which are able to have - according to the story line - wild, passionate sex with humans. Damn, I want one of those!
I'm, still looking for that hull stuff that merely buckles under the impact of a 50kt nuclear detonation. I'm going to open up a body shop with it and make a fortune.
Speaking of 50kt nuclear weapons, which make enormous sense in space, what happened to the radiation imparted
directly to the hull of Galactica? Hello? Any scriptwiters awake during Basic Science for Dummies 101? In a vacuum, nothing blocks out hard radiation. That whole section of the outer hull would be "hot" for years to come.
Why would you fight external compartment fires in outer space? Why wouldn't you simply seal the chamber and evac the air? Internal compartments, yeah. Not much choice. But external ones?
Where does a museum ship get the heavy equipment necessary to repair a hull tough enough to withstand a 50kt blast? That would be a space dock job in any man's navy. My best guess would be Ragnar, but they didn't stay long enough.
BTW - if testing hair samples for "synthetics" determine that nasty old Cylon thing, do they still have wigs and hairpieces? According to the XO, they haven't improved on Rogaine over the centuries!
Be a shame for your rug to sign your death sentence...hmmm?
Love the series...hate the discrepancies, which are entirely unnecessary.
