The lesson learned here is not to ask follow-up questions, but simply to say "Thank you, Captain Apollo, for saving our collective asses!"
“Miniseries, Part 2”
In this episode: William Adama (3), Saul Tigh (2), Laura Roslin (2), Virtual Six (2), Gaius Baltar (1), Starbuck (1)
You would rather that we run?
Yes! Absolutely! That is the only sane thing to do here - exactly that, run. We leave this solar system and never look back.
You can run if you'd like. This ship will stand and it will fight.
I'm going to be straight with you here. The human race is about to be wiped out. We have fifty thousand people left and that's it. Now, if we are even going to survive as a species, then we need to get the hell out of here and we need to start having babies!
[on whether Doral is a Cylon] He doesn't seem the type and I don't remember seeing him at any of the Cylon parties.
[sees Billy flirting with Dualla] They'd better start having babies.
Is that an order?
It may be before too long.
If there are Cylons aboard this ship, we'll find them.
"We"? You are not on their side, Gaius.
I am not on anybody's side.
LKLieutennant Kara "Starbuck" Thrace
Permission to speak off the record?
Granted.
You're a bastard.
[Adama's speech at the funeral services on Galactica.]
Are they the lucky ones? That's what you're thinking, isn't it? We're a long way from home. We've jumped way beyond the Red Line, into uncharted space. Limited supplies, limited fuel. No allies, and now, no hope? Maybe it would have been better for us to have died quickly, back on the Colonies with our families, instead of dying out here slowly, in the emptiness of dark space. Where shall we go? What shall we do? Life here began out there. Those are the first words of the sacred scrolls, and they were told to us by the Lords of Kobol, many countless centuries ago. And they made it perfectly clear that we are not alone in this universe. Elosha, there's a 13th colony of humankind, is there not?
EElosha
Yes. The scrolls tell us a 13th tribe left Kobol in the early days. They travelled far and made their home upon a planet called Earth, which circled a distant and unknown star.
It's not unknown. I know where it is! Earth. The most guarded secret we have. The location was only known by the senior commanders of the fleet, and we dare not share it with the public. Not while there was a Cylon threat upon us. For now we have a refuge to go to. A refuge the Cylons know nothing about. It won't be an easy journey. It'll be long, and arduous. But I promise you one thing: on the memory of those lying here before you, we shall find it, and Earth shall become our new home. So say we all!
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