Battlestar Galactica | Brace for Contact 

I love how that even though Kara is pissed about the abort, she still follows procedure and safes the tube before going off on anyone. Such a small touch, but exactly what a military trained pilot would do

That reminds me, I'm about overdue to watch the Adama manoeuvre today.

That a Battlestar can withstand a nuke and still fly shows what a beast a Battlestar really is

This sequence is one of the most memorable in the show for me for whatever reason. It just feels like life in a space carrier in a time of war. You have mechanical failures, human error, fatigue, uncertainty, etc. I love it. The bit about pulling the valve stuck with me as well, and I think of it sometimes when troubleshooting urgent issues in production.

Also best line: "I haven't heard that in a while"

seems weird now how clean and new everything looks compared to later on

Fun fact: Ronald Moore enjoyed that he didn’t need to come up with some technical speak excuse for the missile getting through like he would have done on Star Trek. She simply missed it.

At first I was wondering why they struggled to deal with 2 Raiders. But then I remembered it's probably the first actual combat most, if not all, have seen. On top of that they're in old Vipers they don't know as well as the newer ones and it's the first time against an unknown enemy. They needed to get to know the Cylon's capabilities while also getting a feel for their own ships.

I see Kara's failed start, and I think:- this is what happens when you are sent into battle with something that until 5 minutes ago was a museum exhibit! I LOVE this series! 😊

I love how calm he is even though he knew there was a nuke incoming. The trust that the vessel was designed well, will hold and was designed to take so much punishment from serving with it for decades

The Mini-series doesn't get enough attention. It's so amazing in tone, depth, and quality of acting.

You know it's a well done show when you keep forgetting you're watching short clips on RU-vid and are like _wtf what happens next!?_

Galactica eats the nuke, spits it back at the cylons, then asks for seconds...Yea got to love that ship.

I love all the little navigation commands they did in the pilot. They dropped that real quick in the show. Also the Cylons were terrifying in the beginning of the show, the more we learned about them, the more they were revealed to be angsty teenagers angry at their daddy.

And all the bullets that missed are still traveling somewhere.

So. Damn. Cool. Adama maneuvering that huge ship in combat "Bow up half, forward left one quarter" "engines all ahead full" "Ahead full, sir! Engines report all ahead full!" That feeling when Starbuck finally gets to launch and get in the fight Us fans of this stuff need to have a bake sale or something to raise some money so we can fund more of this This is the king of sci fi

I like how when Starbuck's viper gets jostled, you can see her helmet seal comes undone. Even if it was a production mistake, it makes sense that a jolt like that would cause the seal to come undone.

This show had, hands down, the best score. Love the constant use of drums to really lay down the tension of what's to come. Then, later in the series when Pegasus arrives, the steel guitar that comes in and gives that calming, soothing relief where you're just like, "Yeeess, friendlies!!!" (which later turned sour).

BSG is so re-watchable. It holds up so well.

Interested how they got the whole "fight with old stuff that you've never seen outside of a museum" setting right. sticking pilots used to new technology into antiquated equipment and expecting them to fight with it. Would be the same as taking the crew of an M1 Abrams, sitting them in an M4 Sherman, and telling them to go fight. No matter how well trained the crew is, the first couple fights are going to be tough because they don't know how the old machine reacts, don't have the same sort of fighting ability, etc..

"Galactica you have explosive decompression emanating from the port flight pod!"

Look how nice and clean and shiny those Vipers were, not to mention Galactica herself.

I can't remember, are those mark 2 vipers? I always got the feeling in the early episodes that the pilots weren't familiar with their vipers because they were older models and that translated to the dog fights we saw. They definitely seemed to improve in later episodes

Some of the best battle sequences in sci-fi history, forgive me Star Trek and Star Wars... but the truth is difficult. Every battle was like the Battle of Endor or Wolf 359.

Best frakking show ever!!!! So say we all!!!!

There's something cool about that quick little turn towards the action Starbuck makes after finally launching.

It’s cool seeing combat commands getting issued in the cic, even tho they don’t seem to correlate to seeing the ship going in a straight line

The chill and cool professionalism of this action vs the full throttle, all hands on decks drastic desperate maneuvers as Galactica is trying to protect everything and survive

The friendship between Adama and Tigh is easily one of the best things about the show.

I really appreciate the fact the first half has no soundtrack. Lack of music makes it more tense, paradoxically

The Pilot Season 1 BSG were great beyond Measures...

I like how that one raider tried to hack into the mark 2 Viper and it didn't work since the mark 2s used such old technology that they are impervious to being hacked XD

Help me I cant stop watching BSG clips! A shame I cant go back and watch this show for the first time again

I can watch these reruns a million times. I miss this series so much😭

To the Galactica, best ship of the fleet!!!

One thing this show got right, is that early on everything looked rather clean, pristine, but as the seasons continued all ships, from vipers, civi ships, even Galactiva both inside and out show visible and extreme wear are tear.

Cool little detail at 2:31 Starbuck is not flying her Viper. IRL Aviators / Pilots dont always fly their own planes.

You know, it says a lot about how big and heavily armored Galactica is that it isn't just immediately broken in half by a nuclear explosion. Sure, nukes aren't nearly as effective in space, but still, that's a lot of power to withstand.

Single most impressive piece of tech on this show is this patently incorrect launch hook for Viper attached to the forward gear - there's no change it has a way to release the Viper at the end of the tube.

When I showed my friend this show, literally seconds before this scene, my friend goes, at least they don’t have to worry about nukes in space.” - I just looked at him like “oh you poor thing.”

I just noticed the viper that Starbuck was piloting had its Call Sign, “CPT Raymond Lai ‘RAYGUN”

Was this before Galactica docked with Ragnar station for rearming? As her AAA would have got the nuke you'd assume... Been a long time since I watched the Miniseries.

I would have loved to see more military drama in this show. They should have set up for more battles like some destroyers and support ships being recovered before the exodus.

I need to rewatch this series. So good

I'm about to launch into a pitch black space. Shine some lights in my eyes and light my face up so I can do my job.

This clip reminds me of the game Battlestar Galactica online. Man do I miss that game

3:20 Yes, I'm sure all Vipers really give a shit about _your_ precious systems right now, what in the middle of a friggin' furball with tons of Cylon raiders.

Bears. Beets. Battlestar Galactica.

i LOVED IT. Right up until 4:26 when incompetent sound leveling blasted high volume.

Should have equipped the Vipers with heat-seeking missiles. Trying to shoot down small, high-speed nuclear armed missiles with a machine gun is very difficult. Seems that a civilization which has mastered trans-light speed travel would have weaponry at least as good as what we currently have.

It's really a shame the later seasons weren't nearly as good as the beginning of the first one.

Brace for contact! Even knows a nuke is incoming. No one braces.

0:42 I just realized that the catapult does all the work until the viper clears the launch tube. The start up sequence seems to include an engine pre-light but the real burn only happens once the ship is away.

They are so green at this point^^

Galactica was really half of what it should be in the series. We all know it had only 1 flight pod operational, and its armor was removed on over half the ship.. but it you look at galactica on flash back episodes from the first war, its in dock and the top of the ship has like 20+ main cannons along the top spine. In the current events galactica only has 8, im suprised no one has mentioned this

BEST Dramatic Science Fiction Series *ever* MADE. BAMM!!

casting EJO. fkn genius.

What I find interesting in this scene are the design choices. You don't see the rear blast doors closing and opening, but you do see the space doors because that's all CGI. To do the rear doors as well would have been more difficult to make because of the crew behind them. Must have been an expensive show to produce but this would have been one cost-saving measure.

A lot of people ask how Galactica can take a nuke and survive. Without getting too scientific, the basic gist is that the explosive force is expelled in the path of least resistance. When the nuke detonated against the armor, most of the explosion dissipated into the vacuum of space. If the nuke had penetrated the armor and burrowed into the ship before exploding, then the result would have been catastrophic. Tough ship.

That is one plot whole I find with this. IF the armor of the Galactica can take a nuke what hope would the small auto cannons of the fighters hope to do. It would be like firing 50 cal machine guns at an Iowa class battleship with 16 inch armor plate. There by both sides fighters pose no threat to the capital ships if they don't have nukes.

Tremendous show with great plot , terrific writing and stellar acting. Interesting note that no sound emanates from the vipers only the cylons while in outer space.

All the battles in the mini series are brilliant

Man, they all look so young.

Great show for 3 seasons then slowly wilted.

Just shows how much a beast this ship was. It took a NUKE and kept going through the whole show. "Bucket?" Yeah right!

one thing that people don't seem to understand about space ship construction for long term flight, it must be able to withstand atomic blasts, because of the radiation that is in space and asteroid impacts and micro meteor showers, the kinetic power of a meteor strike can be equal if not higher than an atomic blast, when you consider that meteors can travel at thousands of miles per hour, so it makes sense that the battlestars could take a hit from atomic weapons, i love that they factored that into the show, it shows that they understood what such a ship would have to be able to withstand. there are many dangers of interstellar space flight, from the above to the effects that 0g has on the human body when experienced long term, from reversed blood flow in certain veins and organs to physiological problems within the brain that could cause strokes when returned to normal gravity, NASA is only just now beginning to discover the effects of long term 0G on the human body and the outlook isn't good, extended spaceflight is going to require some kind of artificial gravity to be installed and that is before we even think of the other dangers of prolonged space flight like the above mentioned radiation and meteors, any manned mars mission is likely to be a one way trip with our current technology, the trip there alone is 6-8 months depending on when its launched, then there is landing and doing what is needed to be done, for a return trip the people may have to be on mars for a year because of the orbit of both mars and earth, with the trip there already being longer than is healthy, we only allow people to work on the ISS for 6 months now because of the health problems that begin to occur, then there is the mars gravity which is 38% of that on earth, which would take its toll on the astronauts, the trip back, another 6-8 months, returning to earth may be a death sentence.

They HAVE TO reboot this amazing show!

1:52 the chief looking like megaman

Just goes to show how thick the armour is on the Galactica as it takes a direct hit from a tactical nuke. She may be old, but god she's tough.

Gods I miss this show! Starbuck as a female was fraking amazeballs!!!!

There were always like hundreds of cylon fighters and only about a dozn or so colonials. how did they survive for that long is a mystery

Not how nukes in space works, but I'm willing to cut BSG more than usual slack. It's a good opera.

What an amazing show!

Those were crazy time. I miss the old crew. I was in a war zone caused by the "good guys", watching a sci-fi TV show about a way caused by "good guys". Ironically entertaining.

That's just frakkin' cool I don't care how you paint it.

Man, imagine how many pilots could have been saved if they used plot armor.

What is the Galactica made of that it can tank a direct hit from a nuke like that

I know I can't be the only one who uses the word "frak" in his daily life. 😊

I don't get why adama said 'brace for impact' just to his XO like shouldb't that be heard across the ship?

Ah yes space where the only sound you can hear is manuver thrusers, gunfire, and for some reason drums.

Did not ask when I saw this but I have to ask now. So galactica has hull plating that can withstand nuclear detonation? Impressive.

Way to go cylons, you got a partial win. I know wins are hard to come since that devastating sneak attack you guys pulled off. Amazingly y'all destroyed the 12 colonies but left just one out of date Battlestar Boy did that mistake cost you It can be argued that destroying the 12 colonies wasn't near as devastating as the damage caused from this one Battlestar to the race of cylons which was reduced all the way down to one beat up base star crewed by the dumber cylons that have no way to reproduce These cylons are just one driving accident away from being extinct

I've never understood - what's that moving thing as they exit the launch tube (0:39)

The Space combat in BSG was really well done but the one thing I never understood was why the Vipers didn't seem to have any sort of gun sight

Keep in mind the raiders learn with each time you kill them. Meaning the pilots of galactica had to keep upping their game or die. You couldn't keep using one trick on the cyclons or they'd adapt.

There goes the museum

Why is my feed suddenly filling up with BSG content? Seen all the episodes multiple times (old and newer shows). Love it but c'mon I know all the words already!

Here's one of the amazing things about the BSG miniseries, no one cares that she was a woman. The reason for this is it was never made central to her character. She moaned about how she oppressed by men, or objectified, or had to work harder to prove herself. She just was herself. We need more characters like this.

Four seasons later, and they never did fix the damage to the hull from that one nuke. Not even when they spent a year in orbit over New Caprica.

This is REAL acting. Most American shows has a lot of swearing and shouting and expletives. Adama saying quietly and calmly "Brace for impact, my friend" was deep.

Simply superb!! The sense of speed and the realism puts you right into the thick of battle!!! Startrek is far too sterilised .. compared to this Truly brilliant show.. I’m just at the end of season four after a massive binge watch after 14 years or so 👍😎 brilliantly acted and written! Also...

Best FRAKKEN show!!

The one thing about the show that I didn't like was the digital "noise" effect that they added to make it look like a documentary. It can be a bit much on a large TV (easy to forget that when the show was new, LCDs were not really a thing and were expensive)

obscure fact: apparently the colonies use Allen-Bradley 800T push-buttons in there control consoles 0:35

in the original BSG, it was like... Adama: "Apollo, Starbuck, Boomer...take pilot number 17 and 54 n get them Cylons"

On Comet TV now weeknights !

What are these things made out of that allows it to take a Nuc. Broadside?

good scene

It would look really cool if present-day aircraft carrier could launch their Fighters like Galactica. Present-day aircraft carriers can only launch four Fighters at a time. A Battlestar can launch a whole Squadron in seconds

Tough ship that can nuke hits all day