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* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: [[Serina]] gets shot and dies in the medical bay, but looks like a beauty queen throughout.
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* EverythingInSpaceIsAGalaxy: The crew of the Galactica often use the term "galaxy" when they should have used "solar system". For example, Commander Adama says that Earth is located in "a galaxy much like our own" ...and in the last episode, the basestar is apparently the only one in the galaxy in which the ''Galactica'' is located, and the rest of the Cylon fleet is spread throughout the universe looking for the ''Galactica'''s fleet.
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Trope's getting cut.
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* BlackBestFriend: Lt. Boomer is good friends with Apollo and Starbuck, particularly the latter. Colonel Tigh also seems to be one to Commander Adama. To the show's credit, both are painted as competent men; and in one of the novelizations, Adama is shown as thinking Tigh fit for command of his own Battlestar, if only there had been any left).
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* TokenBlackFriend: Lt. Boomer is good friends with Apollo and Starbuck, particularly the latter. Colonel Tigh also seems to be one to Commander Adama. Averted in that both are painted as competent men; and in one of the novelizations, Adama is shown as thinking Tigh fit for command of his own Battlestar, if only there had been any left).
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** "centons" for minutes (hours [[EarlyInstalmentWeirdness in the pilot]])
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** "centons" for minutes (hours [[EarlyInstalmentWeirdness [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness in the pilot]])
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* TokenMinority: To a degree with two Black characters: Lt. Boomer and Colonel Tigh. Furthermore, Tigh is a senior commanding officer of the fleet, NumberTwo to only Commander Adama, a rarity for American TV at that time to have a minority actor play a character of such authority.
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* TokenMinority: To Averted to a degree with two Black characters: Lt. Boomer and Colonel Tigh. Furthermore, Tigh is a senior commanding officer of the fleet, NumberTwo to only Commander Adama, a rarity for American TV at that time to have a minority actor play a character of such authority.
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* MonochromeCasting: Averted with the principle cast including two Black characters, Lt. Boomer and Col. Tigh. Very slightly better than the typical TokenMinority situation of the day in retrospect, but an improvement over the original ''[[Film/ANewHope Star Wars]]'' movie which had no minorities at all.
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* TokenMinority: To a degree with two Black characters: Lt. Boomer and Colonel Tigh. Furthermore, Tigh is a senior commanding officer of the fleet, NumberTwo to only Commander Adama, a rarity for American TV at that time to have a minority actor play a character of such authority.
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* RedAlert: When a Battlestar goes into battlestations, the bridge is lit all in a bright red light ambience. As for the warriors, the ship class is so big that a scramble order requires personnel to ride a special internal rail car system to get to their stations.
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Renamed to Head Turning Beauty in TRS. Readd with more context if it fits
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* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Cassiopeia is a "sociolator", although only one person is ever shown to have an objection to her profession. Later, she's HelloNurse.
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* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Cassiopeia is a "sociolator", although only one person is ever shown to have an objection to her profession. Later, she's HelloNurse.
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* BlackBestFriend: Lt. Boomer is good friends with Apollo and Starbuck. Colonel Tigh also seems to be one to Commander Adama.
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* BlackBestFriend: Lt. Boomer is good friends with Apollo and Starbuck.Starbuck, particularly the latter. Colonel Tigh also seems to be one to Commander Adama. To the show's credit, both are painted as competent men; and in one of the novelizations, Adama is shown as thinking Tigh fit for command of his own Battlestar, if only there had been any left).
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone - in the novelization of "The Gun on Ice Planet Zero" (published as "Battlestar Galactica 2: The Cylon Death Machine), Ravashol evolved two sets of clones: thinkers and workers. But as Apollo informs him, his thinkers have evolved such high intellect that they cannot settle on a decision while the workers (who call him "Father-Creator") are thinking for themselves and breeding. The latter realization drives him into temporary HeroicBSOD - he'd designed the clones to be sterile, and the consequences of his failure temporarily overwhelm him. To his credit, he rallies, finds it in himself to do the right thing, and shows the colonists exactly how to destroy the gun (which he himself had originally designed for more peaceful purposes).
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* TwoOfYourEarthMinutes
** It's {{lampshade|Hanging}}d in the episode "Greetings From Earth" where the Terran colonist asks, "Wait just a minute, what's a 'centon'?"
** Likewise, in "Experiment in Terra", when Starbuck tells a different colonist he'll be back in a "centar":
--->'''Brenda:''' Whatever that is, I hope it's less than an hour.
** It's {{lampshade|Hanging}}d in the episode "Greetings From Earth" where the Terran colonist asks, "Wait just a minute, what's a 'centon'?"
** Likewise, in "Experiment in Terra", when Starbuck tells a different colonist he'll be back in a "centar":
--->'''Brenda:''' Whatever that is, I hope it's less than an hour.
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* HateSink: [[ObstructiveBureaucrat Sire Uri]] from the show's pilot "[[Recap/BattlestarGalactica1978SagaOfAStarWorld Saga of a Star World]]" is a member of the Quorum of Twelve, the ruling council governing the Twelve Colonies of Man. Once a man of integrity and good intentions, Uri became corrupted by fame and power. In the wake of the near-annihilation of the Colonies at the hands of the [[KillerRobot Cylons]], Uri [[WhileRomeBurns gorges on hoarded food while most refugees starve]] and shows no mourning for his wife, instead [[DirtyOldMan enjoying the company of women decades younger than him]]. Despite the fact that [[BigGood Commander Adama]] voted for his seat on the Council, Uri [[UngratefulBastard makes attempts to undermine him at every opportunity]], including plans that impact the fleet's survival and [[TooDumbToLive despite knowing that the Cylons are still chasing them]], Uri tries to push through a plan to disarm the Colonies' militia, a plan that falls through when Cylons attack an announcement of his plan and Uri is forced to relinquish control of the situation to Adama's son Apollo.
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* ATeamFiring: The Colonial Warriors and the Cylons are not very good shots while on the ground. Case in point the pilot episode where they're standing three yards away from each other on a narrow bridge and fail to hit one another.
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%%* {{Mooks}}{{Mooks}}: The Cylon Centurions.
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* CyberCyclops: The Cylons, with their constantly scanning one red eye.
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* CyberCyclops: The Cylons, with their constantly scanning one red eye. IL-Series Cylons have two scanning red eyes.
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* HumanityCameFromSpace: One of the most prominent examples. Earth is one of [[spoiler: over]] thirteen colonies of the original human homeworld, Kobol.
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* HumanityCameFromSpace: One of the most prominent examples. Earth is one of [[spoiler: over]] [[spoiler:over]] thirteen colonies of the original human homeworld, Kobol.
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* SuicideAttack: Cylon Raiders often kamikaze-attack into a Battlestar's hangers to disable the Vipers and either leave them stranded (if in flight) or keep the Battlestar from defending itself.
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** Played straight at the end of "The Living Part II". Once again Galactica is the "last Battlestar", as far as anyone can prove.
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->''"There are those who believe that life here began out there, far across the universe, with tribes of humans who may have been the forefathers of the Egyptians, [[{{Mayincatec}} or the Toltecs, or the Mayans]]. They may have been the architects of the great pyramids, or the lost civilizations of Lemuria or {{Atlantis}}. Some believe that there may yet be brothers of man who even now fight to survive somewhere beyond the heavens..."''
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->''"There are those who believe believe, that life here here, began out there, far across the universe, with tribes of humans humans, who may have been the forefathers of the Egyptians, [[{{Mayincatec}} or the Toltecs, or the Mayans]]. They may have been the architects of the great pyramids, or the lost civilizations of Lemuria or {{Atlantis}}. Some believe that there may yet be brothers of man man, who even now fight to survive somewhere beyond the heavens..."''
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* WritersCannotDoMath: The Fleet has 220 ships, and about 6,000 surviving Colonists. That's about 27 people per ship. Not crowded, but also no population base. No wonder the Fleet seems like it suffered a DepopulationBomb. The revival does better, with about 200 per ship.
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* WritersCannotDoMath: The Fleet has 220 ships, and about 6,000 surviving Colonists. That's about 27 people per ship. Not crowded, but also no population base. gods No wonder the Fleet seems like it suffered a DepopulationBomb. The revival does better, with about 200 per ship.
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* YourHeartsDesire: Episode "War of the Gods Part 1". The mysterious being known as Count Iblis can read the mind of anyone he talks to and determine their greatest desire.
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* LoopholeAbuse: How Galactica is in a posituon to defend itself in the first battle.
--> '''Adama:''' "We cannot launch, Colonel; it has been expressly forbidden. However, this might be an excellent time for 'battlestations drill'."
--> '''Adama:''' "We cannot launch, Colonel; it has been expressly forbidden. However, this might be an excellent time for 'battlestations drill'."
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In-Series they use the term "Light Speed" to describe Galactica's speed, with no indication of whether this is FTL or not. Star Wars does much the same, but there it's explicitly stated to be FTL. The part about the rest of the fleet being sub-light is from dialogue in the series as well. Since it's ambiguous, I'm just deleting the statement, and the unnecessary question.
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* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: The writers simply didn't understand the difference between a solar system and a galaxy. Made worse by the fact that only the ''Galactica'' has FTL. Even worse, the ''Galactica'' only has L, without the FT.
** Where is this stated? According to the Encyclopedia Galactica (official book of the show), Battlestars can go up to ten times the speed of light.
** Where is this stated? According to the Encyclopedia Galactica (official book of the show), Battlestars can go up to ten times the speed of light.
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* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: The writers simply didn't understand the difference between a solar system and a galaxy. Made worse by the fact that only the ''Galactica'' has FTL. Even worse, FTL, so the ''Galactica'' only has L, without the FT.
** Whereentire refugee fleet is this stated? According to the Encyclopedia Galactica (official book of the show), Battlestars can go up to ten times the speed of light.moving at sub-light speeds.
** Where
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** Averted in the pilot, when resources were so scarce that the fleet practiced Forced Socialism against Sire Uri, and braved the Nova Matigon so as to make it to Carillon for resupply before they starved.
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** He has another in the movie/pilot when reminded that the Cylon plan was not to allow even Baltar to survive.
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* BloodKnight: Cain. He is effectively Film/{{Patton}} RecycledInSpace.
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* BloodKnight: Cain. He is effectively Film/{{Patton}} RecycledInSpace.
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* FaceNodAction: In the episode "Saga of a Star World", the fleet arrives at the planer Carilon. Starbuck and Boomer go exploring on the planet in a vehicle. When they encounter an alien building, they draw their weapons and get out of the vehicle. They look at each other, nod and move out to check out the building.
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* FaceNodAction: In the episode "Saga of a Star World", the fleet arrives at the planer Carilon.Carillon. Starbuck and Boomer go exploring on the planet in a vehicle. When they encounter an alien building, they draw their weapons and get out of the vehicle. They look at each other, nod and move out to check out the building.
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* AerithAndBob: Siblings Miri and Kyle in "The Young Lords".
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* WholePlotReference: Several, including "The Gun on Ice Planet Zero" (''Film/TheGunsOfNavarone''), "The Magnificent Warriors" (''Film/TheMagnificentSeven''), and "The Lost Warrior" (''Shane'').
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* WholePlotReference: Several, including "The Gun on Ice Planet Zero" (''Film/TheGunsOfNavarone''), "The Magnificent Warriors" (''Film/TheMagnificentSeven''), (''[[Film/TheMagnificentSeven1960 The Magnificent Seven]]''), and "The Lost Warrior" (''Shane'').
