The Battlestar Galactica Drinking Game

Take a drink every time...

...someone kills a baby.

• Six (Mini-Series)
• Adama (Scattered)

...CIC bursts into applause. (Mini-Series, "Home, Part I")

...Col. Tigh:

• ...drinks.
• ...resolves to quit drinking.
  • Take two sympathy drinks when, not if, Tigh falls off the wagon.
• ...is drunk on duty.
• ...questions Adama's orders.
• ...gives a remarkably stupid order to the crew
• Take bonus drinks if...
  • ...a loss of life is involved (Resistance)
  • ...a beloved character needlessly suffers for it (Resistance)
  • ...Lee Adama is involved with the order (Fragged)
  • ...the Fleet tells him, collectively, to frak off (Fragged)
  • ...Commander Adama has to repair Tigh's frak-ups
  • ...Tigh undermines his own reputation as a result (Mini-Series, "Fragged", "Resistance")
  • ...Tigh admits that he's making bad orders (or says he doesn't want to be making the orders, "I don't want a command!", etc.)

...Tigh's wife...

• ...makes sexual advances on someone other than Col. Tigh.
• ...brokers for power.
• ...manipulates Col. Tigh.
  • This may lead Col. Tigh to give a remarkably stupid order to the crew, in which case refer to the rules for that occurrence as well.

...Starbuck demonstrates yet another talent:

• Card Shark: "And the girl wins again! Another round?" (Water)
• Sniper: "With all due respect, sir, I am the best shot in or out of the cockpit." (Bastille Day)
• Painter: "You paint these, Kara? / Yeah." (Valley of Darkness)
• Pro-level Pyramid Player: "I was scouted for the pros. Bum knee took me out of contention." (Resistance)
• Performs unconventional military tactics:

• ...mates two Vipers nose-to-nose for flight (Mini-Series)
• ...jury-rigs an enemy fighter with foreign controls to fly herself home (You Can't Go Home Again)
• ...outwits the Cylons in a tactical fighter plan of attack (The Hand of God)
• ...kills or maims a Cylon with anything other than a gun ("Flesh and Bone", "Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II", "The Farm")

...Six dies:

• Nuked. (Mini-Series)
• Shot. (33)
• Impaled. (Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II)
• Extinguished. (The Farm)

...Six appears to Baltar at an inopportune moment

Take bonus drinks if

...Baltar tries to subtly talk to both Six and real people at the same time (e.g. Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I: "I'm not your plaything!")

...and both Six and the "real" person or people Baltar is talking to respond the same way ("Plaything?")

...Six tries to engage Baltar in either sex or foreplay

...Baltar makes awkward attempts at excusing his odd behavior

...Others comment on Baltar's sanity or lack thereof

...She's naked

...She's dressed like Starbuck

...Six becomes violent or threatens violence

• Breaks a baby's neck (Mini-Series)
• Screams in Baltar's face (Bastille Day)
• Beats the crap out of Caprica-Boomer
• Chokes Baltar (Litmus)
• "I'll always have your heart…I can rip it out of your chest if I have to." (Colonial Day)
• Smashes Baltar's face into a mirror. (Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I)
• Kicks the shit out of Starbuck. (Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II)

...Six comes up with some vague mystical interpretation of Baltar's travails.

...Elosha comes up with some vague mystical interpretation of Roslin's travails.

...Roslin comes up with some vague mystical interpretation of the Fleet's travails.

...Leoben comes up with some vague mystical interpretation of Starbuck's travails.

...Starbuck punches anyone.

...Starbuck hops into bed on a barely-considered whim.

• Gaius Baltar (Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I)
• Samuel Anders (The Farm)

...Anyone smokes (literally or figuratively)

...Any male character sticks it in a toaster.

...Helo acts like an idiot:

• fails to notice his robot girlfriend's glowing spine (Six Degrees of Separation)
• fails to realize his inexplicably nauseous robot girlfriend is pregnant (The Hand of God)
• shoots his pregnant robot girlfriend (Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I)
• lets his pregnant robot girlfriend jack Starbuck's spaceship (Scattered)
• is surprised that everyone wants to throw his pregnant robot girlfriend out an airlock (Home, Part I)
• fails to anticipate territory issues with his pregnant robot girlfriend's copy's former boyfriend (Home, Part II)

...Chief Tyrol acts like a moron:

• makes out with a lieutenant against regulations--who happens to be a sleeper copy of Helo's pregnant robot girlfriend
• lies about making out with his robot girlfriend
• lies when he says he never loved his robot girlfriend
• chews out of his crew who dare to show concern about his feelings about his robot girlfriend--or anything else, for that matter (Mini-Series, Flight of the Phoenix)
• shoots at Cylons with a simple sidearm, or otherwise lets his anger override his own self-preservation instincts, jeapardizing (even killing) others out of sheer stupidity (Take any episode where he's stranded on Kobol, Mini-Series, "Pegasus")
• glares at or curses Colonel Tigh

...Bill Adama makes a recklessly dumb command decision

• Counterattacking the Cylons (Mini-Series)
• Wasting half the fleet's fuel looking for Starbuck (You Can't Go Home Again)
• Arresting President Roslin (Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II)
• Sending Marines to rescue Helo and the Chief from the Pegasus (Pegasus)

...Bonus drinks if a woman tries to reason with Adama and Adama remains stubborn.

• Roslin tells Adama, "The war is over, we lost", and "We need to start having babies" (Mini-Series)
• Dualla tells Adama, "It's time to put the fleet back together" (Home, Part I)

...Finish your drink completely when, not if, Adama ultimately relents and echos that woman's words to his officers.

...Bill Adama:

• ...uses his Glare of Death.
• ...stomps down Galactica's hallways.
• ...waxes philisophically.
• ...expresses sympathy for the Cylons.
• ...expresses an enthusiastic attitude toward killing Cylons.
• Take a bonus drink if it is by trying kill a Cylon himself
  • Finish the drink completely if he tries to kill the same Cylon he expressed sympathy for in a previous episode.
• ...agrees with President Roslin.
• ...argues with President Roslin.
• ...deposes President Roslin.
• ...appears on screen sporting a moustache.
• ...does something "captainly", like crushing walnuts in his hand or building a model ship.
• ...uses military action to resolve a situation. (See the above section if Adama's decision to use military action is recklessly dumb.)

...Gaeta says, "Yes, sir." (On this one, alone, most of us would need a "commercial break" after one episode...)

...Apollo's modesty is thwarted by the smallest towel in the fleet.

...Laura Roslin uses her Stare of You-Gotta-Be-Frakking-Kidding-Me.

...Kara Thrace and Lee Adama stare at each other strangely for non-work-related reasons.

...People get away with things—major disciplinary problems are ignored or set aside

• Starbuck gets away with punching Col. Tigh (Mini-Series)
• Tyrol gets away with his hidden affair with Boomer, even when it leads to a security flaw that allows a Cylon suicide bomber to attack the ship (Litmus)
• Boomer gets away with trying to kill herself and ends up on a vitally important mission (Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II)
• Apollo gets away with pulling a gun on Tigh (Scattered) and helping Roslin escape (Home, Part II)
• Kat gets away with getting high on drugs during flight (reinstated in Pegasus)

...Zarek makes a gambit for power, but loses (Colonial Day, Home, Part I, Home, Part II)

...Starbuck makes a Cylon kill.

...Someone mistakes Starbuck for a Cylon and tries to kill her (You Can't Go Home Again, Home, Part I)

...A Cylon says "By your command".

Re-imagined Series definition: all-purpose vulgarism; Colonial version of "fuck" (see: frak)

Galactica 1980 definition:  Dillon looks up this term after Gloria Alonzo asks if he has one (1980: "Space Croppers")

Original Series definition: a typical Cylon response to an order (see: By your command) (TOS: "Saga of a Star World," et al.)