Frack: Difference between revisions

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If you are looking for the vulgar term in the re-imagining, it is spelled frak.

"Frack" is a mild Colonial expletive, roughly analagous to "shit" or even the milder "rats" or "darn". Its subversive value, exploited far more extensively in the 2003 re-imagining, is that it sounds like a variant of "fuck", and in the latter series it actually conveys that meaning.

There are two main ways to spell the term, but "frack" is how it appears in the Writer's Guide, dated October, 2, 1978.

"Frack" appears only seventeen times in the original series. Most of the time, the expression is used by Starbuck.

"Frack!" is used once each in Saga of a Star World, Lost Planet of the Gods, Part I, Lost Planet of the Gods, Part II, Gun on Ice Planet Zero, Part II, and Fire in Space. It is used twice in The Magnificent Warriors

"Holy frack!" is used once each in Gun on Ice Planet Zero, Part I, The Magnificent Warriors, War of the Gods, Part I, Experiment in Terra and The Hand of God.

"Oh, frack!" is used twice in Lost Planet of the Gods, Part I and once each in The Long Patrol and Baltar's Escape. In Greetings from Earth, Boxey says, "Oh, frack," in a classroom where Athena is teaching a group of children, loudly enough for the entire room to hear, but there is no indication that he was punished or reprimanded.

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-: <I>If you are looking for the vulgar term in the [[re-imagining]], it is spelled [[frak]].</I>
+: ''If you are looking for the vulgar term in the [[re-imagining]], it is spelled [[frak]].''
-Frack is a Colonial colloquialism for the word "[[Wikipedia:fuck|fuck]]".
+"Frack" is a mild Colonial expletive, roughly analagous to "[[Wikipedia:shit|shit]]" or even the milder "rats" or "[[Wikipedia:darn|darn]]". Its subversive value, exploited far more extensively in the 2003 [[re-imagining]], is that it sounds like a variant of "[[Wikipedia:fuck|fuck]]", and in the latter series it actually conveys that meaning.
-It may be the case that the word does not carry the same level of social taboo as did "fuck" in 1978 America. In "[[Greetings from Earth]]", [[Boxey (TOS)|Boxey]] says, "Oh, frack," in a classroom where [[Athena (TOS)|Athena]] is teaching a group of children, loudly enough for the entire room to hear, but there is no indication that he was punished or reprimanded.  The word may carry no more social weight than "rats" or "darn" in the universe of the Galactica.
+There are two main ways to spell the term, but "frack" is how it appears in the [http://www.chrispappas.com/archives/wguide.html Writer's Guide], dated October, 2, 1978.
-Other variants include: fracking or fracked.
+"Frack" appears only seventeen times in the [[TOS|original series]]. Most of the time, the expression is used by [[Starbuck (TOS)|Starbuck]].
-Though never used in the original series, an assumed variant is also the plural form: fracks.
+"Frack!" is used once each in [[Saga of a Star World]], [[Lost Planet of the Gods, Part I]], [[Lost Planet of the Gods, Part II]], [[Gun on Ice Planet Zero, Part II]], and [[Fire in Space]]. It is used twice in [[The Magnificent Warriors]]
+"Holy frack!" is used once each in [[Gun on Ice Planet Zero, Part I]], [[The Magnificent Warriors]], [[War of the Gods, Part I]], [[Experiment in Terra]] and [[The Hand of God (TOS)|The Hand of God]].
+"Oh, frack!" is used twice in [[Lost Planet of the Gods, Part I]] and once each in [[The Long Patrol]] and [[Baltar's Escape]]. In [[Greetings from Earth]], [[Boxey (TOS)|Boxey]] says, "Oh, frack," in a classroom where [[Athena (TOS)|Athena]] is teaching a group of children, loudly enough for the entire room to hear, but there is no indication that he was punished or reprimanded.
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