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He'd even end up as essentially the Viper Squadron Commander in the colony battle

The promotions in BSG made me chuckle a bit. Apollo went from Lieutenant up to Battlestar Commander and everything in between but seemed to finish as a Major. Helo also went from Lieutenant, to XO of Galactica, even held CAG at one point but seemed to stabilise as a Captain. Hotdog steadily worked his way up, same with Hoshi who ended up as Admiral at one point!

That’s what happens when you’re literally the CO’s son 😂

​@@Negativvv Senior ranks in BSG went lieutenant - captain - major - colonel - commander - admiral (with a few inbetween that are not used) Apollo went Lt to Captain to Major. Adama sr went from Commander to Admiral, promoted by the president. Helo went from Lt to Captain, as did Starbuck Hoshi was always a Lt, as was Hotdog and Gaeta 'XO of Galactica', and 'CAG' were positions not ranks. You could hold these positions at any rank. Tigh held Galactica XO throughout most of the series, but his rank was still Colonel - he was the only colonel during the whole show. CAG was held by numerous people of Lt., Captain and Major rank. Apollo and Hoshi were given 'temporary' or 'brevet' promotions to ensure they had rank over their command (Pegasus and the fleet respectively), hence why they were referred to as 'commander' and 'admiral' - Gaeta technically has this too during his time of command during the mutiny. This practice is common in present-day militaries. When they had finished their command, they returned to their permanent rank - Major for Adama and Lt. for Hoshi - Hoshi never actually gets promoted above Lt!

Lee was already a Captain (Reserve) in the Miniseries

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Well he did raise her it's unofficially adopted daughter

Some people can cut you down with just a glance.

@@charlesneely7995 Yes but the backstory is that Starbuck got Adama's son killed by not flunking him out of flight school because she was frakking him. She admits it to Adama when he asks why she failed all the nuggets immediately. He orders her to reinstate them, go train them properly and to get lost. Tigh innocently blunders into it and gets the look. Lovely tight bit of acting.

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sometikes though, you cant beat the real thing.

Simulators can only do so much: actual flight gives a far better experience. Although it *IS* much easier to train for war during peacetime than during the actual conflict; more so, if, during the latter, your training area is in the enemy's backyard!

While I agree that simulators are very useful, they're not by any means a replacement for real practice. Their main advantage is saving in operational costs.

@@moteroargentino7944 you tart them with simulators and the better students advance to flight training. That's what we do now for airline pilots, now even driving a car in some areas you start on simulators. I could have used that when I was learning to drive in the 70's.

Imagine being in VR training and not realizing a real battle was happening outside.

It's a feature on Mk 2 and Mk 3 vipers only. Mk 7s use conventional RCS ports instead. I have a theory that the brake thruster might actually be a cold-gas thruster using exhaust ducted from the main engines rather than hydrazine or some other monoprop. Also, you'll see this feature being used again in the battle for the tylium asteroid

Successful to the point that it's still used by Navy fighter pilots on occasion.

I just noticed it’s the manoeuvre that Starbucks has Hotdog pull after he gets hit lol

Still is an effective maneuver. While the need for support was especially crucial with the advantages the Zero had over the Wildcat, it's still a need in any dogfight.

​@roughrider6129 Even Today?

Our government is still using obsolete technology, and they won't change, because it's unhackable. That is why galactica still exist as well.

@@slewone4905 And because changing would be hugely expensive, and also because sometimes old tech is more reliable than new - cue the Navy replacing touch screens with physical controls on their destroyers after one of them crashed

Actually thats a Mark 3 Viper But yeah they are very old since its like... from the First Cylon War

If it was a Mark 1 Viper the other Starbuck would be flying it.

Those are Mk. II's not III's and it's a call back to how our aircraft today are designed and built, both civilian & military aircraft have backup gauges for all the primary flight systems and even if the mains are digital glass MFD's the backups are mechanical steam gauges that have a guaranteed reliability.

So do we all......

@@arnoldsherrill6305 so say we all

@@riechjoverzala9087 SO SAY WE ALL!

So say we all

So say we all!

What about it 4:33 to 4:34 /35

I believe you mean "gods".

But she gets shot down here

He's played by Edward James Olmos' (William Adama) son you know.

He was late getting back to the battle, so he had to play ketchup? Put a little extra mustard on his shots? Bet he thinks Starbuck has nice buns.

In a deadly encounter with Hotdog, there can only be one wiener.

I think a lot of people don't realize that the actor is Edward James Olmos' son too.

@@WarGrowlmon18 NO WAY

@@Ueberdoziz Bodie Olmos 👍

No he already knew. Adama didn't.

@@WarGrowlmon18 -- I could be wrong, yet I am pretty sure that is what the OP is saying. She kind of confessed, once they know SHTF and it was the end of their Worlds. Her confession to Commander Adama would a little more difficult.

We wish.

wrong episode THis one is when she takes a cylon ship and fly it back home.

Slew One they were being sarcastic

@kobeno1 You don't know me, cause then you'd know I prefer 2010!

2010 was an ok flick, but Jupiter turning into a star was dumb at the end. Earth would have been fried instantly.

Was it ever weak?

@@rpersen Season 3, reporting in. Specifically the second half. The episode where they escaped New Caprica was strong as hell but it went down fast after that.

Season 1, Episode 4

Rolling 180 wouldn't do much good. Her guns would still be pointed in the wrong direction. Her viper would be upside down. A yaw or pitch maneuver would work. Unless Galactic had better G suits, she also would be able to handle more G forces than a male.

Shoulda been Duck, Goose, Duck!

"Eject! Eject! Eject! Watch the canopy!"

@@sfjlfkjsdlfkjds - We don't know that. 150,000 years is a very long time to forget stuff. The Cylon god could be the Zoroastrian god, Mazda, for all we know.

@@conroypawgmail -- Mazda*? Zoom, Zoom! * - Void where prohibited. Your mileage will vary, inversely with the amount of fun you have driving on an open road!

Where did that occur in this scene?

Starbuck and Hotdog both bled blood, not engine oil like several of the crew.

Yeah, reused footage makes me cringe a bit each time when saw it in Deep space 9 and Babylon 5 first, and here in BSG again

@@darkleome5409 Then there's the original Battlestar Galactica (1978). That show was the king of recycled footage.

Yea well it would help, but also its guite hard to anticipate how far something is in space becose you don’t have reference. It would make little difference, since they had tracer bullets that they could have as a refernce point

The raider didn’t have 40 years of wear and tear on it. Besides I think they recovered Starbuck’s fighter

Cylon tech is overall more hardy and tough than colonial tech. Also, since their vessels seem to be "grown" using a nanite composite rather than bolted together, it would produce fewer stress/weak points for the shear of the atmosphere to attack and break apart.

@@astronomybrainiac Sounds good,..but it seems like there is no way it would be able to negate the heat of reentry,..and that heat would kill any biological component of the ship, unless it had some tech that was never really introduced into the story.

Julia [nWo] Let us pray that does not happen! Ironically some considered this show to be bad but it is actually pretty good. I would say the best attribute to to this show is that it has a more military atmosphere compared to the original.

@Douglas Pantera BSG75 had exceptionally strong, CREDIBLE female characters - unlike the crappy Mary Sues that are being shoved down our throats these days. If the new Battlestar show will remotely be like Star Trek Discovery or Picard it's gonna be a total disaster ... for the fans AND the producers.

They aren't rebooting it, keeping it the same universe thank the gods!

@@SaraK_69 Really?

@@mort-m5b -- Really. They haven't indicated whether it's a prequel or a different group of survivors, but it's definitely going to be set in RDM's universe.

Yes but that's always the same for any show, at least until GOT

The Raider was still piloted by an organic brain. I think they established later that the idea was the Raiders would be expendable in the sense that they would just download into a new one after they were shot down, thereby gaining experience after every battle. It could very well be that these raiders were just as green as Kara’s trainees.

Cylons were just slightly more advanced machines in the first Colonia vs Cylon war - say around 40 years prior to the time of BSG's scheduled decommissioning (and the last meeting at the Armistice Station). The main trick they acquired since then were the "skin jobs" - so they had to be more human, than the humans - to infiltrate and disable about 90% + of the Colonial defenses. The raiders are probably as good or better than the average trained Colonial Viper pilot - yet not nearly as good as one of the better or best Viper pilots in all the Colonies. Also, hot dog scored a hit, yet was lucky Starbuck was doing so well vs 7. And also, as someone already mentioned, they can learn, die and come back to be a better version of themselves ... that is also a tricky bit of tech right there.

You see that glow in their helmets?

The same reason WWII fighters that had rear mounted or turreted guns were withdrawn from combat and spent the rest of their career as target tugs. And can you name one modern fighter that has rear facing weapons?

The hammerheads in space above and beyond. Long live the 5 8. Shuffle up the wild cards and deal em!!!

@@merrt034th8 You line up the rear facing gun, and the Bandit also has a straight shot on You.

@@linusa2996 Russian aircraft with R-73E and F-35 with DAS/AIM-9X