Lieutenant Starbuck and Captain Apollo in “The Hand of God”

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.