Starbuck quotes from Battlestar Galactica (2003)

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

[after seeing Caprica Boomer take the captured Raider] Bitch took my ride.

After they attacked, I never... I never pined over any of my old crap. Never missed it. Stupid view of the parking lot. Broken toilet in the bathroom. You know, everyone I know... is fighting to get back what they had. And I'm fighting 'cause I don't know how to do anything else.

Starbuck to all vipers-- do not fire...repeat, do not fire! I'm a friendly, okay? We're all friendlies! So, let's just...be friendly!

Cylon raiders tend to isolate the wingman and gang up on individual Vipers before his wingman can protect him. [a crewman walks in and hands Starbuck a notice]... which is exactly what happened to JoJo twenty minutes ago.

So, barely competent and paranoid? That's a hell of a combination.

You're right Felix, you're a frakking hero.

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?

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.

[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!

Like my new toy?

Lee

When you take a souvenir, you don't screw around...

Now, if you were human, you'd be just about ready to start offering up some false information about the location of the nuke. Some tiny thing that might get you a reward and maybe spare you a few minutes of this. But then I keep forgetting, you're not human. You're a machine.

I am more than you could ever imagine. I am God.

[stifles laugh] I'm sorry, you're God? Wow... nice to meet ya. That's good, that's good. We'll give you a couple of minutes for that.

Leoben

It's funny, isn't it? We're all God, Starbuck. All of us. I see the love that binds all living things together.

Love? You don't even know what the word means.

Leoben

I know that God loved you more than all other living creatures and you repaid His divine love with sin, with hate, corruption, evil. So then He decided to create the Cylons.

The gods had nothing to do with it. We created you. Us. It was a stupid, frakked-up decision, and we have paid for it. You slaughtered my entire civilization. That is sin. That is evil. And you are evil.

Leoben

Am I? I see the truths that float past you in the stream.

Tell me where the warhead is.

Leoben

This is not your path, Starbuck. You have a different destiny.

Don't interrupt me. You see, I'm gonna dazzle you with my poor human brain. You see, I think that you're afraid. You're afraid that we're a long way from home. What if you don't transfer all the way back? What if, when you die here, you really die? It's your chance to find out if you're really god or just a bunch of circuits with a bad haircut.

Leoben

I'm not afraid of dying.

Somebody's programmed you with a fairy tale of God and streams and life ever after but, somewhere in that hard drive that you call a brain is a beeping message: "Error, error, does not compute. I don't have a soul, I have software. If I die, I'm gone."

Leoben

All of this has happened before, and all of this will happen again.

Don't quote scripture. You don't have the right to use those words.

Leoben

You kneel before idols, and ask for guidance and you can't see that your destiny's already been written. Each of us plays a role. Each time a different role. Maybe last time I was the interrogator and you were the prisoner. The players change, the story remains the same. And this time, this time, your role is to deliver my soul unto God. Do it for me. It's your destiny. And mine.

Adama

Captain Adama and Colonel Tigh are working on the plan now and I need some serious "out-of-the-box" thinking.

"Out-of-the-box" is where I live.