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== [[Mini-Series]] == | |||
=== References to [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Battlestar Galactica]] === | |||
*The Cylon design the [[Armistice Officer]] is looking at in the beginning, and the [[Cylon Centurion]] in the ''Galactica'''s museum, are from the original show. | |||
*A model of the original series' [[Cylon Basestar]] is also in the ''Galatica'''s museum. | |||
*The theme played during the current affairs programme used to introduce Dr. [[Baltar, Gaius|Gaius Baltar]] is that of the original series fanfare. The fanfare is again heard during the decommissioning Viper flyby | |||
*[[Baltar]] tells [[Number Six]] that "the last time anyone saw a Cylon ''[i.e., the original series]'', they looked like walking crhome toaster." | |||
*Baltar tells Number Six that "treason gets the death penalty;" in the original series, a point was made of the death penalty being abolished, even for the death penalty. | |||
*In the first encounter between the Colonial Vipers and the [[Cylon Raiders]], one of the pilots says that during the first war, Raiders looked like flying wings (the original series' Raider design). | |||
*One of the ''Galactica'''s pilots who is killed by the Cylons is called Jolly, the name of a ''Galactica'' pilot from the original series. | |||
*Roslin makes a point of calling [[Lee]] "[[Captain Apollo]]," saying "it has a nice ring to it." | |||
*At the end of the mini-series, [[Valerii, Sharon|Boomer]] says "by your command," the standard response of the original series' Cylons to the [[Imperious Leader]]. | |||
=== Other References === | |||
*[[Number Six]]'s name is a reference to the character of the same name from "[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061287/combined The Prisoner]" | |||
*The ''Serenity'', the ship from the show "[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0303461/combined Firefly]," can be seen through the window above [[Roslin]]'s head when she is diagnosed with cancer. | |||
*[[Colonel Tigh]] burning the eye out of a picture of his wife is a reference to a similar scene in ''[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078788/combined Apocalypse Now]'' with Martin Sheen's character. | |||
*The Gemenon liner's ID number is 1701; in [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092455/combined Star Trek: The Next Generation] (which had many episodes written by ''Battlestar Galactica''s developer) the Enterprise's ID number is 1701. | |||
*Roslin's swearing-in as President is a reference to the famous photograph of Lyndon B. Johnson being sworn in as President onboard Air Force One, after Kennedy's assassination. | |||
*''[[Colonial One]]'''s design was based on Air Force One, and the [[Raptor]]'s design was based on the Apache helicopter. | |||
==[[Bastille Day]]== | |||
*The title is a reference to the event that began the French Revolution, when peasants stormed a prison and tore it down in the name of freedom. In this case, the prison is a prison ship, and the prisoners themselves take it over. | |||
*The ''[[Astral Queen]]'''s design is identical to the [[TOS Prison Barge|Prison Barge]] from the original series. | |||
*The "I'm a bus driver, not a warden," comment from the ''Astral Queen'''s captain is a reference to Dr. McCoy's quips from "[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060028/combined Star Trek]." | |||
==[[Act of Contrition]]== | |||
*In the flashback to Zak's funeral, there are American military HumVees and Duece-and-a-Half trucks on the Colonial base. | |||
==[[You Can't Go Home Again]]== | |||
*This episode shares some similarity with the final ''[[Galactica 1980]]'' episode, "The Return of Starbuck," where Starbuckis stranded on a desert moon, and uses a crashed Cylon Raider to return to the ''[[Galactica]]''. | |||
==[[Litmus]]== | |||
*The name of the episode refers to a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litmus_test litmus test], used in chemistry to detrmien the presence of an acid. | |||
*Commander Adama has copies of "Reader's Digest" in his cabin. | |||
==[[Six Degrees of Separation]]== | |||
*The name of the episode is a reference to the [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108149/combined movie of the same name], and share a similar concept - that everyone cna be connected to others (in this case, Baltar, the dead scientist, and Shelly). | |||
==[[The Hand of God]]== | |||
*A reference to the final episode of the original series, also called ''The Hand of God''; in both episodes, Adama launches the first offensive strike against Cylon bases. | |||
*In both episodes, "wing-waggles" are used to identify the friendly itnents of captured Cylon Raiders to other Colonials. | |||
==[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I|Kobol's Last Gleaming]]== | |||
*In both this episode and the original series ''The Hand of God'', the Colonials track Cylon Raiders using IFF transponders. | |||
*Both ''Kobol's Last Gleaming'' and the original series ''The Lost Planet of the Gods'' are two-part episodes where the ''Galactica'' finds Kobol. | |||
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