Captain Apollo quotes from Battlestar Galactica (1978)

[referring to Lieutenant Sheba] Let her go! I command it!!

Captain Apollo

You command no one who does not willingly give you dominion! You have no power over me!

(sensing danger for the first time) You know who I am.

Captain Apollo

Yes, I finally know.

Captain Apollo

I want you to discontinue your work at once.

Captain, I'm afraid you don't have the authority to–

Captain Apollo

I'm not asking you; I'm ordering you out of the ship!

Lieutenant Starbuck

I'm picking up something. Just rising on the back side of the planet. Oh, no. No!

Captain Apollo

Starbuck?

Lieutenant Starbuck

Get out of here! It's a Cylon base star!

Lieutenant Sheba

Who picked you for this mission?

Captain Apollo

I did.

Lieutenant Sheba

You really want to get yourself killed, don't you?

Captain Apollo

What's that supposed to mean?

Lieutenant Sheba

Ever since you lost Serina, you've taken every high-risk mission.

Captain Apollo

Serina has nothing to do with it.

Lieutenant Sheba

She was a very lovely woman, Apollo. But she's dead.

Captain Apollo

Look, can we just drop this?

Lieutenant Sheba

No, we can't just drop it! [tearful] You think you have the corner on loneliness here?! I'm sorry.

Captain Apollo

It's all right.

Lieutenant Sheba

I guess we've been at each other's throats ever since we met.

Captain Apollo

Yeah, I guess we have.

Lieutenant Sheba

Except for lately. You've included me in your tight little circle of friends, and I appreciate that, Apollo.

Captain Apollo

Yeah; well, I realized I'd been a little hard on you.

Lieutenant Sheba

Did you ever think about the fact that maybe two people who snap at each other for no reason are doing it to avoid their real feelings? I've thought about it quite a bit. [kisses Apollo] Be careful.

Lieutenant Starbuck

You still don't think that transmission was a lure, do you?

Captain Apollo

No. Only now, we'll never know. Wilker's lab was destroyed in the battle and the recording with it.

Lieutenant Starbuck

So you're waiting here for another transmission.

Captain Apollo

Yeah. Boomer rigged a gamma signal booster. If anything's out there, I should pick it up.

Lieutenant Starbuck

[realizing] You – think it came from Earth, don't you?

Captain Apollo

I hope it did. Our first contact should be a transmission, something similar to what we saw.

Lieutenant Starbuck

Just looked like an old spacecraft on a routine run to me.

Captain Apollo

[chuckling] Well, what would you expect, a momentous message? No, we'll just pick up routine radio or video scans. Nothing extraordinary... to them, anyway.

Captain Apollo

They're really gonna give us a medal?

Lieutenant Starbuck

Did I say us? I think they're just decorating me!