Admiral Benson: "Ahhh... I love soup. At least I think I love soup. Blasted shell! It's either soup or duck. Which one do you shoot?" Lt. Commander Block: "Duck, sir." _DONGGGG_ Lt. Commander Block: "Are you alright, sir?" Admiral Benson: "Of course I'm alright! Why, what have you heard?"
All those shows did that to save money on props, special effects and cinematography. When Airwolf became "Canadian Airwolf" (season 3 and up, new cast) every single chopper fight and scene was recycled from the American Airwolf. But yeah Battle star Galactica 1978 was one of the worst about it.
@@blacktoothfox677 You beat me to it. I had to laugh when I saw that part. I remember this episode when it aired, but was too young to realize what it really was. Besides, one of the characters WAS Apollo, right? LoL
I've always thought toggles make sense in space. If you're hit by debris or something, maybe you can rewire a switch. If that debris takes out a touchscreen, I don't know how you'd rewire that.
Starbuck: "How can we be accused of violating orders of a man who isn't following orders himself?" Apolla: "... somehow that makes sense to me." I always did appreciate the banter between Apollo and Starbuck.
I really loved the characters and so wished they could have explored and expanded over seasons to come . I saw Richard Hatchs vision , so wished it could have happened .
I prefer "squadron purple and orange request to join the fight"... Col. Tigh: "Which squadrons? We have no squadrons purple and orange.... Apollo and Starbuck..."
I remember this vividly - I watched it "live" during its original broadcast. I was 9 years old. It was one of the more badass moments in all of Sci-Fi, and stands up even to this day.
At age 7 I was incapable of appreciating the moment. As an adult watching the show, the whole 2 episodes was about gambling, impossible odds, the responsibility of protecting civilians, disobeying your boss when you know you are right, and the overwhelming firepower of those Basestars becoming useless when you come in at the right angle (see the final episode of the series).
@@jamieolberding7731 I still prefer the whole thing; at least the bad guys were the bad guys; and didn't have half the crew of the good guys' ships without making it count.
@@johnbower7452 I strongly agree. Even Bad Guy spaceships can become Hero Spaceships such as the iconic Klingon Bird of Prey from Star Trek, for example. (This awesome Klingon Warship that makes an excellent stealth vessel, as you see here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Q90GxVkpdXo.html The Klingon Bird of Prey also has some pretty formidable firepower and is also incredibly fast and maneuverable for such a small Klingon Warship, as you can see here when Commander Kruge's Klingon Bird of Prey destroys an unarmed Freighter: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ksbxo6Ft4ho.html )
@@jamieolberding7731 Imagine what Star Trek lore would've been like if they followed their original idea of the Bird of Prey being Romulan (captured by Klingons). All because Leonard Nimoy thought it would've been better if it was a Klingon ship.
The original series is by far the absolute best! Best story, best picture and special affects, Steve Dykstra was a genius in special affects. Lorne Greene, Richard Hatch, Dirk Benedict, and and the entire cast were brilliant. I always looked eagerly to sit down and watch this show on Saturday night.
@@floydlooney6837 The majority of the budget went to the 3 part pilot. That's why you had so many homage/ripoff stories from movies early on in the show to save money.
At One point In time, Richard Hatch had actually tried to make his own adaptation of Battlestar Galactica where Apollo had assumed command of the Galactica from Adama There's some promo footage of this on RU-vid
@Shawn M: fun fact for you If you've ever watched "Buck Rogers In The 24th Century", the fighters in that series were the original design for the Colonial Vipers that, along with other props from Battlestar Galactica, had been repurposed for that series
Looking at this as an older adult I am laughing how cheap and cheesy this is, yet back when it was on TV in the late 70's and I was a kid it was incredibly impressive
As someone who grew up living for battle scenes in Star Trek through the 90's and early 00's, I'm blown away by this... i can't believe this was on TV in the 70's.....
The "Living Legend " episode of original Battlestar Galactica was my favorite. As a kid, I built viper and Battlestar models and imagined Commander Cain and Pegasus survived and reformed Silver Spar Squadron.
@@Zurround exactly. It would have had a very different tone to BATTLESTAR: GALACTICA. No civilian fleet to protect, just round the clock attacks against Cylons. Plenty of good stories they could have told.
@@roberttbrockway It could have even been done as a series of BOOKS as some books were written that continued the regular series. If a 2nd remake of BSG is filmed I want the series to continue for a while AFTER finding Earth but NOT be the bullshit that the 1980 show was. My idea is that they make contact with the world's leaders in a big budget large scale adventure where its a little like V (except the "aliens" really are biologically humans and really are the good guys) where the crew of the Galactica work together with the militaries of the world to build more vipers and other weapons and train Earth's soldiers and astronauts to fly them to prepare for the arrival of the Cylons and at some point they do come and its a little like Independence Day with the world's military forces combined with the higher level of technology the Galactica helped them develop working together with what remains of the colonial fleet to defend Earth.
I like how they used the detail of having the ship’s bridge be dimly lit with red light (just like a real submarine at night does to help keep the crew’s eyes adjusted to the dark)…. But the two space fighter pilots have bright yellow lights shining on the inside of their helmets into their faces. They would absolutely be blinded by those. I think really space pilots would need a heavily polarized visor screen to protect their eyes from bright starlight or nearby explosions.
The helmet lights make it easier for the camera to pick up the faces of the actors. It's a pretty practical way to fix that issue. IRL it would blind the pilots in the dark of space.
The light of the sun is definitely a big concern, if you played a game like Elite Dangerous then you’d know that one major issue you can deal with is being to close to a nearby star or being completely blinded by it, explosions will also be a major issue too
Even Top Gun 2 Maverick does it, when he flies the Darkstar. They admitted it would be bogus IRL, but unless you want to see a mirror instead of an actor with voice over, this is the way.
God I miss this. That feeling as a kid of waiting till 6:00pm every friday. There were 3 shows when I was a kid that my family knew, for that period the tv was MINE, and Battlestar Galactica was one of them. Bless you mum + Dad for always giving that time to me. Wether I’d done my homework or not...
That was one of the things I never understood about Galactica's cancellation. They said that it cost a million dollars an episode to make but how is that possible? They reused the same battle scenes and sfx every episode.
@@muznick I can understand the reboot raiders as AI drones and even the vipers firing projectiles and their maneuverability in zero gravity as more realistic but It's a hell lot more fun when they swoop and dive like WW2 planes firing lasers instead of bouncing around like a rubber ball. Plus when they go turbo thrust, they really go friggin turbo thrust!
To 9 year old me this was great science fiction . Space battles supreme. Couldn't wait until the weekend to see what they were up to next. Loved it all so much. Fun times were had all around. Then we'd talk about what we'd watched over the weekend back in school on Monday with friends. Living day to day. Loved those years. They are precious to me now that Im alone at 54 years old.
You're not alone. Your friends are out there. Go find them, brother. My childhood was similar. I cherish this show. Sending love from somewhere across the world.
By far one of the most fun episodes next to the final one of the series. Getting to see two Battlestars working together, as well as seeing one go against Basestars is always exhilarating, and the exciting dog fights and land battle are just icing on the cake.
It wouldn't surprise me in the least if that wasn't a plan all those years ago. If you thought Galactica had it bad, just consider a battlestar with nothing but a skeleton crew trying to survive on its own. And yeah, I could see the Pegasus returning to the home worlds to try to shanghi a new crew. And then to do a second reunion show. There was so much potential there. You just know that the Colonials had special projects. Deep space exploration, Cylon Space penetrations, and new ship designs. You could base a whole series on a crew trying to salvage from what the cylons didn't know about and left alone.
There was a playstation 2 fighter game that was based on this era and it was pretty good. It was difficult as hell but it was fun and had all the classic designs.
@@zorkmid1083 If BSG had mentioned "deflector shields", Paramount and Gene Roddenberry would have sued Universal and Glenn Larson into the middle of the nearest parallel universe (while Fox was suing Universal for copying Star Wars).
@@Mikey300 My point is that BSG doesn't mention shields of any kind, except for the doors covering the bridge's window. Besides, Star Wars mentioned a cloaking device without earning the wrath of Star Trek.
It wasn't easy for Apollo & Starbuck to tell Commander Cain's daughter, who got sent to the Galactica with the wounded and non-essential personnel to the fleet after she got wounded by the Cylons, that the Pegasus is gone after she destroyed 2 Cylon Base Stars while trying to get to the one under Baltar's command. Balltar must've gone furious after he heard the 2 Base Stars were destroyed but didn't get to know where the Pegasus went afterwards.
Baltar ordered the two Base Stars to slow the Pegasus down. So he actually witnessed their destruction. Baltar and Lucifer survived. Pegasus likely damaged Baltar's Base Star, but couldn't finish it off with all those fighters returning/probably damaged from getting caught in the explosions of the Base Stars. Baltar would likely know what vector the Pegasus was heading, but too damaged to pursue.
@@jessesanchez9187 Baltar was in command of 1 Cylon Base Star, not all 3. Baltar chickened out because his Cylon fighters weren't able to return in time to help him stop the Pegasus from reaching his base star and to destroy it with him aboard it.
@@azurerainbow4637 Lucifer said the other Base Star Commanders wouldn't be happy about intercepting the Pegasus. Baltar replied "That wasn't a request. It was an order."
Doubtful. Baltar probably retreated from scanner range so the Pegasus wouldn't track him. Otherwise the Galactica would have gotten that info from him when he surrendered to the fleet.
Having grown up with Hot Shots! and Airplane!, I absolutely can not take Lloyd Bridges as Commander Cain seriously. I had the giggles this entire time. Great scene though, and the tribute in the remake series is great as well.
I see your point. I can see it very well, and you ruined this moment for me. LOL But Lloyd was once considered a good dramatic actor, and he was chosen for "Airplane!" for the same reason as Peter Graves. Known drama actors who might spoof their reputations. Graves refused to do the movie until being told it was intended to be a goofball comedy.
@@cneterer It would have been much better if they had cast Peter Graves's brother, James Arness in the role. The only people who ever took Arness seriously spoke German. Mein Gott, he iz zo beeg, ve can't miss. :)
@@cneterer In fact, most of the actors in Airplane were chosen for their ability to do serious roles. The directors wanted the actors to deliver the lines straight and without comedic embellishment. It was to add to the absurdity that all of these characters were acting serious amidst the lunacy. Lloyd Bridges, Robert Stack, Peter Graves, Leslie Nielson all with histories of dramatic roles.
66 years young here! Just recently enjoyed a trip down memory lane watching the entire BSG 1978 on TUBI! Including "Galactica 1978" Some of that was kinda silly but some was pretty good too!
According to some fan tech site the Missiles here are Solonite Rockets and have a yield of 300 Megatons per missile (Which is more than sufficient to destroy a Battlestar or Basestar with a single direct hit Shields or no shields). They are non Nuclear despite the high yield. Galactica didn't have any Solonite Rockets during the Armistice (Maybe they had a supply shortage after the disastrous Battle of Molecay 2 years prior). Thus when the Galactica encountered the Basestar in "The Hand of God" it relied on it's Lasers to defeat the Basestar (Which also seemed to lack Missiles). Despite this the Lasers had the same special effects shot as the Missiles.
NOPE! It's stock footage of the Apollo CSM separation from the SIV-B third stage of a Saturn V rocket. I wondered about that from the time I saw it on the show myself. Then I watched some Apollo missions and saw what they actually were.
They used the footage from the 2nd or 3rd episode with the land based laser and the clones for the missile battle and the BS destruction. If only they had a better budget
@@schwarzerritter5724 actually the Galactica DID have missiles. When the Galactica took on the Cylon Baseship in the final episode of Original Series you can see Omega (I believe his OFFICIAL title/rank was Flight Sergeant) activating/using the SAME type of toggles/switches Tolen used on the Pegasus when she fired her missiles. And even though I honestly don't remember Adama ordering missiles to be fired, the ONLY times you saw that wide reddish streak was AFTER missiles HAD been launched/fired. The REST of the time it was simply regular Lasers or Mega-Lasers.
Ultimately, as someone who wasn't alive at the time to have nostalgia for this I'll always prefer the remade series, but man does this have it's charm.
Yeah. I was a teenager when this came out. Its hokey by today's standards but we didn't know any better. And I think their Viper design still looks pretty intimidating.
@@scottys1423 There's no doubt that the ship models look amazing, I don't think anyone would have looked to reboot the show without so many iconic designs.
Did anyone else realize that they used the separation and boost of the Saturn V third stage (Apollo lunar missions) as the missiles launching from the Pegasus?
The Battlestars are fighting battlecarriers - but with a considerable array of missiles so these are very much like ballistic missile submarines in their third role. The Japanese had a concept ship that was half Yamamoto battleship and aircraft carrier.. Not too sure if any saw service in the last year of WW2. But it was a concept under consideration.
The '60s and '70s were a great time for Canadian actors in TV Sci-fi playing leading roles as starship Captains/Commanders, Chief Engineers and villainous arch-nemeses'. *William Shatner* (Montréal, PQ): _Captain James T. Kirk,_ USS Enterprise, NCC-1701 *James Doohan* (Vancouver, BC): _Cmdr. Montgomery ("Scotty") Scott,_ Chief Engineer, USS Enterprise, NCC-1701 *Lorne Greene* (Ottawa, On): _Commander Adama,_ Protagonist, Battlestar Galactica. *John Colicos* (Toronto, On): _Count Baltar,_ Antagonist & Cylon sympathiser, Battlestar Galactica. The tradition would be upheld in the short-lived 2002 TV Series *Firefly* with Edmontonian _Nathan Fillion_ playing Capt. Malcolm Reynolds.
Caine was the coolest! I was 12 when this aired. It was nice having the new series but the old one has a special place in my heart. Michelle Forbes was a good Caine just not as good as Lloyd Bridges. That old war daggit!
Holy fuck…I did not make that connection until this comment. Admittedly I am rather young and wouldn’t have immediately drawn the connection since my first exposure to Kor was in DS9 so he had the full Klingon Makeup
I liked how they left it totally open to bring back the Pegasus at a later date. There was never any verification as to what happened to the Pegasus. Of course, with the cancellation of the show, we can only dream of the triumphant return of the Pegasus in season 2!
Yeah I figured that was something they could keep in their back pocket if they ever wanted to utilise it. Officially the Pegasus' fate remains unclear to this day, it could have been destroyed, it could have escaped though clever manuevering, it may have staggered out of that engagement barely alive to either flee to lick their wounds or be finished off by Baltar, we simply don't know.
I remember reading on the BSG wiki site that there were plans to bring back the Pegasus in season 2 with the crew replaced by cylon duplicates. Not sure if that article is still available. Interesting that there were plans for "human" cylons in the original show. They did have a "human" model in the 1980 series (Halloween episode).
@@kmabru While likely far better than Galactica 1980, a proper season 2 still would've been...disappointing in some ways, going by the proposed stories I read. As you mention, The Pegasus with a cylon human crew....only for the Pegasus get destroyed for good in the end. Sheba getting killed off (Apollo can't catch a break!), IIRC just because the cast was getting too big. Athena's actress replaced after her character gets severely burned and has reconstructive surgery.
Got to love the ‘78 Battlestar tossing the attack of the stock footage in the middle of the scene. And the writers forgetting they are going to show the scanner so the pilots don’t have to look.((Of course, I recall that they were always doing re-writes in ‘78)
It's sad that this was the last time we saw Commander Cain and the Pegasus and the last time either was mentioned was in the last episode of the show when the Galactica went up against a single Cylon BaseStar in what Commander Adama called a 'Toe to Toe SlugMatch' and they used the same footage in that episode from this one where the Pegasus went up against to Base Ships.
I have said this before on previous reels of classic Battlestar Galactica, that the Pegasus and indeed the Galactica as well ARE equipped with some kind of hyperspace drive. What I think happened is that during their firing run on Baltar's Basestars, Their navigation and weapons timed a precise hyperspace jump that during the explosions of both ships ,the Pegasus simply jumped perhaps beyond their redline or even had a course that could take them back to a safe harbor close to the original 12 Colonies. Either way, I doubt for one minute Commander Cain is dead. He simply offloaded his daughter and all non essential personnel off the Pegasus in the event the attack and jump did not work. It really needed precise timing, and their shields to hold long enough (meaning no damage taken to their hyperdrive) to do this suicide run. But this is speculation at this point so take it with a grain of salt. But I believe Cain knew he and Adama could not really work together due to entirely different leadership styles and also Adama (the amount of survivors in the fleet was never revealed) had a possible one million people in the fleet to protect. Cain could not handle being a warrior and protector for the fleet so he might have hatched a plan that would give Adama and the fleet a better chance by faking his death, thus giving Cain freedom to potentially retrieve those left alive on Caprica and the colonies and attack the Cylons directly. And if he finally succeded, perhaps either resettling Caprica, or finding a better home for his own group. Either way, it would have saved Cain face, the Galactica and fleet thinks he died a hero, and two battlestars saving what was left of humanity would have a better chance on their own.
You may have missed a later episode where they found the remains of a very very large ship crashed on some uninhabited planet. I have not seen this series since it was on TV and I was in JH school at the time. But IIRC they never actually confirmed it was the Pegasus, but Cain's daughter lost it and had to be restrained when they started looking around the crash site. It was the same, possibly 2 or 3-part, episode where Baltar, for no logical reason, gets in a Cylon fighter and surrenders to Galatica, where he spends the rest of his days in their brig.
@@medson71 I recall pretty vividly when they found the wreckage, one of them commented it was huge, like big enough to be a battlestar. A bit later one of them found something and then they were trying to restrain Sheba, who was freaking out. They never said it but it was clear we were supposed to conclude that was the Pegasus. And it was Baltar who recognized Iblis' voice as being the same as the Cylon imperious leader. I think the writers were alluding to darker forces behind the Cylon empire as opposed to just a race of self-aware robots that rebelled against their human masters.
They didn't talk about hyperspace like in the reboot but it was part of the show cannon that battlestars could exceed light speed. There was one episode when they decided to leave a bunch of vipers to guard the fleet while the Galactica went on a mission and jumped to light speed. Certainly Cain could have just kicked it in high gear and sped away. There was another episode where they modified Starbucks viper for extra speed (at the cost of being unarmed). It launched and went past light speed.
@@scottys1423 They had to restrain Sheba because they were referred to as Satyrs. There was a commentary on it and the problem was the "goatlike" creatures weren't realistic enough, and the cast just laughed. So they cut the scene to where Apollo simply restrained her and told her not to look. It's not the Pegasus and as one commenter said it, "They were followers of Iblis, or as Apollo recognized him as "Diabolis". He was a former Celestial, the ones in the crystal ship that are extremely advanced, but were once like the Colonials, meaning once they were human. But were incredibly evolved and they revived Apollo and gave Starbuck, Sheba, and Apollo the coordinates of Earth.
"Boomer, you're in Command, Starbuck and I are going to checkout Our rear flank" "How Far To Our Rear" "Don't Ask Too Many Questions" "That's What I Thought" Gotta Love that Boomer, Starbuck and Apollo All have the same mindset
I recall an episode where he had to take command and go into battle, showing his tactical skill. I forget why Adama wasn't there. But very cool they had at least one episode where we got to see his skills, as opposed to just being a sidekick.
@@ricardog2165 At this point, Sheba and Apollo hadn't gotten together yet, in fact, they'd literally just met in part 1 of this episode of Battlestar Galactica
Baltar was lucky the Cylon Imperious Leader didn't have him executed for not helping 2 Cylon Base Stars against the Pegasus because his fighters couldn't return in time to defend him, and that he was afraid that Commander Cain was going to kill him for selling out to the Cylons. If Commander Cain had the chance to kill Baltar face to face, he would've liked to see Baltar on his knees begging for mercy and that Cain wouldn't give it to him because of his betraying the Colonies.
Battlestar's are the toughest ships in sci-fi. The beatings we've seen these ships take over several series/decades would give other SF ships nightmares. The Pegasus went out the way she lived here and in the reboot...dealing death to Cylons! I still remember Galactica's final jump in the reboot as well...broke her back and broke my heart - "she was a good ship"
A GOOD STORY AND CAIN'S LEGACY WAS LEAVING THE GORGEOUS SHEBA TO APOLLO. WAY TO GO STUD!!!!!! STARBUCK SHOULD HAVE STUCK WITH ATHENA THOUGH. DAMN!!!!!!
Yes but Maureen Jensen was seriously ill by the middle of the season and had to drop out of filming. So the writers drew Starbuck and Cassiopeia together.
HEY WILLIAM, THANKS FOR THE TIP BECAUSE I THOUGHT CASSIE AND STARBUCK WERE MISMATCHED ANYWAYS AND THIS EXPLAINS IT. WHAT HAPPENED TO MAREN ANYWAYS AFTER SHE QUIT ACTING AND LEFT DON HENLEY?@@williampaz2092
That gave a lot of people that impression, however, the script says the person they saw in that crashed ship had goat legs, and they did not want Sheba to see it. It was not the Pegasus. See a previous post about Galactica 1980, they were supposed to find the Pegasus but the crew had been replaced by Cylons that looked like the Pegasus crew.
That was the impression I always got, because 1) Apollo keeps Sheba away from the crash site; 2) one of them says that whatever crashed there was “as big as a battlestar.”
The Star fighters from Buck Rodgers were originally supposed to be the Vipers for BSG from what I understand. Even the way the ships launched in Buck Rogers were kind of the same. Some of the interior shots used the same controls as BSG did.
Both series were produced by Glen Larson. There was a lot of re-use in Buck Rogers, from costumes, to set dressings, to ship models, to even sound effects.
@@mikekopack6441 I think at one time there were hundreds of Battlestars in use and the Colonial sphere of influence far more vast. The Cylons drove Mankind back to their home system over the thousand yahrens of constant total war. The fleet of 5 Battlestars we see in Saga of a Star World is but a tiny fraction of the fleet say... A few hundred yahrens prior.
@@richardched6085 I read there were only 12; one per colony. The humans never had a quarrel with the Cylons until they interfered with the Cylons trying to subjugate the #Hisaris. After that, the war began. When it was over, only 5 Battlestars were left. #Atlantia #Solaria #Galactica #Pacifica & #Triton.
@@charlesdavis545 there were only 12 Jupiter class Battlestars in the First Cylon War of the reboot series. The Original Series never established that there were only 12 (It just seemed like a logical assumption as we only know of 9 Battlestars).
I remember watching this as a kid for the first time. As soon as the episode ended, & for the rest of my childhood, I would always be wondering is the Pegasus made it out of there in one piece.
It crashed on a planet. You see its remains in a much later episode. Sheba (Kane's daughter) was with Apollo and Starbuck when they saw the remains and Apollo said to Sheba "Don't come over here." Starbuck came over, saw the bridge, and said to Apollo, "Wait Apollo.... maybe she should?" Like let her see with her own eyes what happened to her father's ship. Sheba was infatuated with some alien "God" that the fleet intercepted and she became one of his followers. But that "God" did not want the pilots to see the remains of the Pegasus. It appears that he was not a "God" at all but Satan in space. Starbuck tried to kill him with his hand pulsar but Sheba stopped following him.
@@paulcolburn3855 That was a fan rumor, but it was eventually disproven. The script from War Of the Gods describes it as an alien ship. Starbuck and Apollo look inside and see a dead alien with hooves, a demon or some sort of demon-like creature. It was not the Pegasus.
@@jasonthewatchmansson8873 That is interesting. Unfortunately, it doesn't matter. BSG 1978 went away after one season and we got Mork & Mindy instead because that was much cheaper for ABC. So we could never really find out about the Pegasus. They never mentioned it in that horror series called "Galactica 80"
Think that's wrong despite that episode's insinuations of that burnt ship being as bigas a Battlestar. In the hand of God episode, Sheba said her father took on 2 basestars and Tigh replied that the Pegasus was never heard from again, nothing about being destroyed on the planet.
The Missiles might be set to detonate once reaching a certain distance (Or striking a ship's hull) thus still inflicting some damage on the Basestar. They're probably unguided and Cain ordered all Missiles to be launched. He knew that at least one would hit.
@@richardched6085 Nah, just a poor attempt to increase the tension, damaging a truly epic scene. Sci-Fi learned from this though and you don't see this sort of thing happening without obvious defence or incompetence nowadays.
The problem is they had zero budget to show actual missiles, beyond the stock footage of ballistic missiles launching from silos. To try to depict the "missiles" in flight, the best they could do was the yellow "bolts" flying across the screen that could only overlay the basestars. They couldn't show an actual impact, so they had to wait to show any effect on the basestars at all until they overlaid the giant explosions to show them being totally destroyed. It was literally nothing, nothing, nothing... ok all gone.
@@fletchbg Understood about the budget, but they could have just overlaid explosions on top of the initial ones to show multiple hits (and throw in some partial bolts depicting the missiles "hitting"). Well, in the end, it worked.
This should have been the biggest special effect for 5 episodes or so: A battlestar between two base ships firing missiles. It didn't even look like they attacked Cylon missile launchers but just regular lasers.
They destroyed the Missile Launchers aimed at Pegasus possibly causing systematic internal damage. Cain was even surprised that a single Viper could successfully strafe a Baseship as it's Laser Turrets would ordinarily be enough to take em out. However as Starbuck pointed out the 2 Basestars were close enough that they'd inadvertently fire on each other if they attempted to fire on the Vipers. Typically Raiders are used to prevent Viper attacks on Basestars... But they didn't have any Raiders as they were deployed to fight Galactica over Gamoray and were only just returning.
well i`m sorry as i`ve only watched the pilot of the new battlestar galactica series, and when i was growing up this was no doubt one of my favourite series and my battlestar galactica television series, and along with buck rogers in the 25th century it`s probably what got me interested in these type of sci shows in the first place and off course ignited my love of all things to do with space and space ships, and when i look back on what i was first watching on television all those years ago and it was no doubt the likes off, the incredible hulk, the amazing spiderman, wonder woman, the six million dollar man, buck rogers in the 25th century, battlestar galactica, star trek, star wars, close encounters of the third kind, star trek the motion picture, the black hole, i do think that looking back i feel blessed to have watched such great tv and films while i was no doubt still very young.
@@chrisdixon3003 I couldn't find the clip of the Centurion drawing a sword to kill Baltar exactly, but I saw one with outtakes where he screams as a sword is put to his throat. Also, one where he's given a base ship and Lucifer.
@@williampaz2092 You were supposed to despise the second Cain. In canon she only got her admirals rank because her grandfather was once fleet admiral and a brilliant commander during the cylon wars. Pegasus was an experimental new Battlestar that had on board production facilities making it a prototype for long term deep space deployment. A cross between an aircraft carrier and a heavy cruiser. She was given it to test out and to be kept away from any important field command situations. Basically high command didn't really trust her and she was viewed as very rigid in her thinking but because of her "name" they couldn't exactly completely cashier her. And technically Adama did mutiny against her command in the reboot series but she also was guilty of plotting against a fellow officer. So theoretically both of them should have been relieved of command and subject to court martial.
Baltar was lucky that the Cylon Imperious Leader didn't order the Cylons on Baltar's Base Star to be executed because he had ordered Lucifer to have his Base Star fallen back behind the other 2 Base Stars to intercept the Pegasus, which destroyed the 2 Base Stars with their missiles and then went off into deep space again before Baltar's fighters could return. If the Pegasus had returned again awhile after the 2 Base Stars were destroyed, they would've continued to go with the Galactica towards Earth.
