Battlestar Galactica (2003) quotes

Tigh

Yes, we're tired. Yes, there is no relief. Yes, the Cylons keep coming after us time after time after time. And yes, we are still expected to do our jobs!

God has a plan for you Gaius. He has a plan for everything and everyone.

Chief Tyrol

We'll sleep when we're dead, c'mon!

Why are we arguing about this?

I have no idea.

Neither do I! You're the CAG, act like one.

What the hell does that mean?

It means that you're still acting like you're everyone's best friend. We're not friends, you're the CAG. "Be careful out there"? Our job isn't to be careful, it's to shoot Cylons out of the frakking sky! "Good Hunting" is what you say. And now one of your idiot pilots is acting like a child and refusing to take her pills. So she either says 'Yes, sir' and obeys a direct order, or you smack her in the mouth, and you drag her sorry ass down to sickbay, and you MAKE her take those pills.

Well, I'm glad I'm not working for you.

You're damn right you're glad...

So, do I have to smack you on the mouth, Lieutenant?

No sir, I'll take my pills. [Lee holds out the drugs] Oh. Perfect... [She takes the pills, crunching loudly]

Carry on.

[salutes] Yes, sir! [sees Chief Tyrol staring at him] WHAT?

Do you remember the first time you lied to a woman? Other than your mother, that is.

Baltar

Other than my mother? Sherry Bennett. Fourth grade, on the playground, behind the band room. "If you show me yours, I'll show you mine." She did. I did not.

Adama

There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people.

Number Six

We're the children of humanity. That makes them our parents, in a sense.

True, but parents have to die. It's the only way children can come into their own.

Every man has to decide for themselves which side they are on.

I didn't know we were picking sides. [walks off]

That's why you haven't picked one yet.

Roslin

You have committed me to holding elections within the year.

Madam President, with respect. You are serving out the remainder of President Adar's term. When that term is up, in seven months, the law says, there is an election. I only committed you to obeying the law.

Adama

You sound like some kind of lawyer.

Roslin

This is unacceptable.

I swore an oath. To defend the articles. The articles say there is an election in seven months. Now, if you are telling me we are throwing out the law, then I am not a captain, you are not a commander, and you are not the president. And I don't owe either of you a damned explanation for anything.

Roslin

He's your son.

Adama

He's your advisor.

Ummm. I have my flaws too.

Tigh

The difference is, my flaws are personal, yours are professional.

Adama

He said something else. That you might have been feeling guilty about something you did for Zak. What did you do for him?

I don't know. You'd have to ask Lee.

Adama

I'm asking you.

Well I don't kn-I, ah...I don't really know what he was talking about, so-

Adama

Don't fence with me, Kara. I love you like a daughter. I don't deserve that.

Ummm...Zak...failed...basic flight. He wasn't a bad pilot, he just had no feel for flying...and, um, when it came to his final check ride he...busted...three of the test maneuvers, and I should have flunked him, but I didn't. The bottom line is your...son...didn't have the chops to fly a Viper...and it killed him.

Adama

[following a flashback] You did it because you were engaged.

[breaking down] Because I made a mistake...because I was just...I was so in love with him...and I let that get in the way of doing my job...and um, and he um, he just wanted it so much, and I...I didn't want to be the one who crushed him...

Adama

Reinstate the trainees to flight status.

I will...but I just want you to understand...that I-

Adama

Do your job.

Yes sir-

Adama

And walk out of this cabin...while you still can.

[to a downed Cylon Raider] Are you...alive?

Lee

Why did you do this? Why did we do this?

Kara was family. You do whatever you have to do. Sometimes you break the rules.

Lee

And if it was me down there instead?

You don't have to ask that.

Lee

Are you sure?

If it were you, we'd never leave.

[narrowly avoids being hit while piloting a hijacked Raider] You idiot! Didn't anybody teach you intercept protocol?! Okay... we're gonna have to do this the hard way then.

Lee

[chasing Starbuck] Whoa, this bastard's good! Hold still, you little...

Close enough for you... Just a little... bit... closer... [Lee scores a hit] NOT THAT CLOSE!!! [pulls off a sudden brake, forcing him to overfly her]

Lee

What the-?! I've lost him! Galactica, I repeat - he's nowhere to be seen... [Starbuck slowly approaches him from behind and stops above him] Holy... Galactica, the Cylon is now flying formation with me! Right above my head. This thing is acting weird...

Put me through.

Lee

[laughs at the Raider suddenly turns around] It's Starbuck!

What?! Come again, Apollo!

Lee

Galactica, the Cylon Raider is marked "STARBUCK". It's painted onto the frakking wing! [everyone in the CIC cheers]

Bring it into the bay! If it does anything, take it out!

Lee

Wilco Galactica but I tell you what, it's gotta be her. This thing's flying around with some serious attitude!