Felix Gaeta quotes from Battlestar Galactica (2003)

Tigh

That software firewall ready?

Lieutenant Felix Gaeta

Best I can make it, sir. Wish Dr. Baltar was here.

Tigh

To hell with that. I'll take your work over that shifty son of a bitch's any day.

Adama

Mr. Gaeta? I want to see all recon material o­n Kobol immediately in my quarters.

Felix Gaeta

[surprised] Aye, sir?

Tigh

Kobol?

Adama

Yes. I'm putting the fleet back together. I'm putting our family back together. This ends now.

Gaeta

Sir, I'm running every diagnostic we've got. Checking each line of code could take days.

Tigh

I am not interested in excuses. Fix it!

Gaeta

[shouting] It's not an excuse, sir. It's a frakking fact!

Anastasia Dualla

Attention unknown vessel, this is the Battlestar Galactica. Identify yourself or we will fire upon you.

Felix Gaeta

Range now 1700, sir. [long pause]

This is the Battlestar Pegasus to the ship claiming to be the Galactica. Please respond.

Saul Tigh

Pegasus? How could that be? The entire fleet was destroyed.

[orders Dualla] Give me direct contact. [speaks] Pegasus, this is Galactica actual. Authenticate identity with recognition codes immediately.

Dualla

[sees panel] Sir. I'm receiving Colonial recognition codes. They're authentic.

Admiral Helena Cain

Galactica, this is Pegasus actual, Adama, is that you?

Adama

Cain. What a pleasure to hear your voice.

Cain

[to XO Jack Fisk] Disengage.

Red Team, disengage. Red Team, disengage.

Cain

Commander, I don't know what to say. This is a miracle.

Adama

You took the words right out of my mouth. [orders crew] Step down to Condition One throughout the fleet.

Galactica, Apollo, you are not going to believe what I'm looking at out here. It's like a dream. It is a dream. [laughs and smiles at seeing Battlestar Pegasus and escort fighters]

Lieutenant Felix Gaeta

[over the loudspeaker] Inbound Cylon fleet! I repeat: action stations, action stations. Set Condition One throughout the ship. This is not a drill.

Oh gods... what're we going to do?

Saul Tigh

The ship is under attack. We do our jobs. Report to your stations!

Galen Tyrol

Report to stations?

Tigh

My name is Saul Tigh. I am an officer in the Colonial Fleet. Whatever else I am, whatever else it means, that's the man I want to be. And if I die today, that's the man I'll be.

Gaeta

Sir, the Cylon strike force has just turned back to their ships. Baseships are spinning up.

Tigh

They're pulling out.

Adama

I'd do the same damn thing before they change their mind. Helo, have our fighters cover our withdrawal.

Yes, sir.

Tigh

They had us. Game over. Why the hell did they let us go?

Maybe something's changed.

What?

Felix Gaeta

You're glowing.

Am I?

Gaeta

All I can think of is that waste of a planet.

Felix, please... I just want to hang on to this feeling for as long as I can.

Gaeta

Okay. [hobbles over to stand next to her and indicates a photo of Dee as a little girl] Look at that. Little Ana's got her smile back.

Sometimes I don't even remember that's me. So long ago... she has no frakking idea what's ahead of her.

Gaeta

Yeah. None of us do.

Lt. Felix Gaeta

Admiral Adama, I am removing you from command of this ship and I am taking you into custody on the charge of treason.

Admiral William Adama

You swore an oath when you put that uniform on. You pledged to defend this ship and her crew.

Gaeta

[furiously] You swore the same allegiance! What happened to your oath? For seven years, I have done my frakking job and for what? [indicates Colonel Saul Tigh] To take orders from a Cylon? To let machines network our ship? No, you... you are not the leader you were when we started. You're just a sad old man who has let his heart and his affection for a Cylon cloud his judgment.

Adama

I want you all to understand this! If you do this, there will be no forgiveness. No amnesty. This boy [referring to Jaffe] died honoring his uniform. You, you'll die with nothing.

Lt. Felix Gaeta

Welcome back. I had a feeling you wouldn't be on that Raptor.

Admiral William Adama

I care too much for this ship to let it be overrun by rats.

Gaeta

(sarcastically) Right. If only you cared as much about the people on it...

Adama

You have no frakkin' idea-

Gaeta

Well then show me! You want to save some lives? Get on the radio and call Roslin. Tell her to come back and surrender.

Adama

No.

Gaeta

I'll ask you one more time, Admiral.

Adama

"Admiral?" "Admiral?" [reaches up to undo his rank insignia] You're the admiral now. So you call up Roslin. Make her laugh. [tosses his insignia onto the command panel]

Felix Gaeta

I suppose a long time ago, it was... architecture. There was a year there where I scribbled floor plans on everything. Dining room table, patio tiles, rare books... drove my parents crazy.

Gaius Baltar

How old were you?

Gaeta

I dunno. Uh, eight, maybe? Nine? [chuckles] I tell you one thing, though. I had some pretty frakking amazing ideas. Restaurants shaped like food. Hm? [chuckles again] Oh, gods, there'd be buildings and stairways... everything, everything had to have a stairway. [refills Baltar's cup of coffee] Spoils of war. [sighs] When I was older, then it became medicine, engineering, photography. Think I would've made a better architect than any of those, though. And then I discovered science and I... thought I was really, really good at it. Until I met you.

Baltar

[fighting back tears] Felix...

Gaeta

[shakes his head] No. And please, no religion. [pauses] I'm fine with how things have worked out. Really, Gaius, I am. I... I just hope... I hope that... people realize, eventually, who I am.

Baltar

I know who you are, Felix. I know who you are.

Admiral William Adama

Ready! Aim!

Felix Gaeta

[looks down at the stump of his leg, which has to this point caused him constant pain, until it ends] It stopped...

Adama

Fire!

Lt Felix Gaeta

[answers phone] Combat. Understood. [hangs up; to Adama] Condition One is set. All decks report ready for action sir.

William Adama

Very well.

Col Saul Tigh

[reads reports Adama just gave him] This is a joke. The Fleet's playing a joke on you, it's a retirement prank, come on!

Adama

[glares at Tigh] I don't think so. [starts shipwide PA] This is the Commander. Moments ago, this ship received word of a Cylon attack against our homeworlds is underway. We do not know the size or the disposition or the strength of the enemy forces, but all indications point to a massive assault against the Colonial defenses. Admiral Nagala has taken personal command of the fleet aboard the Battlestar Atlantia following the complete destruction of Picon Fleet Headquarters in the first wave of the attacks. How and why doesn't really matter now. What does matter is that as of this moment, we are at war. You've trained for this. You're ready for this. Stand to your duties, trust your fellow shipmates, and we'll all get through this. Further updates as we get them. Thank you.