TV show quotes
[Lieutenant Anastasia "Dee" Dualla talking to Adama about his actions after being shot by Boomer.]
I don't think the problem is that you've been betrayed, I think its that you feel helpless. You were shot, you were injured, and when you finally had a chance to do something, you let us down. You made a promise, to all of us...
Mr. Gaeta? I want to see all recon material on Kobol immediately in my quarters.
[surprised] Aye, sir?
Kobol?
Yes. I'm putting the fleet back together. I'm putting our family back together. This ends now.
[Onboard Raptor One, transporting a party down to Kobol]
How simple could it be? Okay. We're in the north-northwest continent, quadrant C, sector 2, which...
Oh, for frak's sake, let me see if I can make heads or tails of it.
Look, I marked the terrain as best as I could but we're not... topography's for pansies anyways.
[Commander Adama and Billy Keikeya, onboard Raptor One, discussing President Roslin]
She thinks you'll be President one day.
'Scuse me?
That's what she said to me once, that you reminded her of President Adar when he ran for his first office.
I don't really know how to respond to that, sir.
Don't let it go to your head. Adar was a moron.
So Cally kills Sharon and the old man gives her 30 days in the brig. 30 days for murder.
They don't see it as murder, Helo. That's what I'm trying to tell you. That's what you're not hearing. To him, to the president, to all of them Cylons aren't people. I'm not a person to them. I'm a thing.
(On "Earth" (a representation of Earth's night sky found within the Tomb of Athena):
I thought we were in the Tomb of Athena.
I think that was just the lobby.
So who or what are you, exactly?
I am an angel of God sent here to protect you. To guide you, to love you.
To what end?
To the end of the human race.
[after meeting Baltar for the first time] What a strange little man.
[Filming an interview with Apollo.]
You seem to think that your pilots deserve special consideration.
Actually, I do. Like everyone else, my pilots have lost their families, their friends, everyone they ever cared about; but on top of that they're asked to put their lives on the line every single day, for a fleet that seems more interested in what they do wrong than in what they do right. They're not asking for your pity, but they damn well deserve your respect.
[The closing voice-over narration to D'anna Biers' documentary on the Battlestar Galactica, which runs over a montage of images from the ship. The Colonial Anthem tinkles in the background and gradually builds to up to a grand swell.]
I came to Galactica to tell a story. In all honesty I thought I knew what that story was before I ever set foot there: how an arrogant military let their egos get in the way of doing their jobs, safeguarding the lives of the civilian population. But I found out that the truth was more complex than that. These people aren't Cylons. They're not robots blindly following orders and polishing their boots. They're people. Deeply flawed, yes, but deeply human too, and maybe that's saying the same thing. What struck me most is that despite it all - the hardships, the stress, the ever present danger of being killed - despite all that, they never give up. They never lie down in the road and let the truck run them over. They wake up in the morning, put on their uniforms and do their jobs. Every day. No pay, no rest, no hope of ever laying down the burden or letting someone else do the job. There are no relief troops coming, no Colonial Fleet training new recruits every day. The people on Galactica are it. They are the thin line of blue that separates us from the Cylons. Lt. Gaeta told me a remarkable statistic; not a single member of Galactica's crew has asked to resign, not one. Think about that. If you wore the uniform wouldn't you want to quit? To step aside and say "enough! Let someone else protect the fleet"? I know I would. But then, I don't wear a uniform. Most of us don't, most of us never will. The story of Galactica isn't that people make bad decisions under pressure, it's that those mistakes are the exception. Most of the time the men and women serving under Commander Adama get it right. The proof is that our fleet survives. And with Galactica at our side, we will endure. This is D'anna Biers, Fleet News Service.
Nobody's expecting a miracle.
Maybe that's the problem.
[Lt. Gaeta is starting to lose his composure under constant pressure.]
Sir, I'm running every diagnostic we've got. Checking each line of code could take days.
I am not interested in excuses. Fix it!
[shouting] It's not an excuse, sir. It's a frakking fact!
Sharon flew 47 missions in this thing, couldn't trap a landing worth a damn.
[Tigh walks into the tool closet on the hanger deck and discovers Tyrol making homebrew]
What's this, Chief?
I'm making solvent, sir, to clean machine parts.
Solvent my ass. I know a still when I smell it.
I took your advice, met on common ground.
And what was that?
We both wanted to live.
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