References to the Re-imagined Series

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This article discusses various references to the Re-imagined Series made by other works of note in various mediums including, but not limited to, television, film, or literary publications.

Film

Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner

• Mentioned once.

Deck-A-Rep: The True Nature of Rick Deckard

• Edward James Olmos calls Deckard a Cylon instead of a Replicant.

Futurama: Bender's Big Score

• Features a "Cylon War Memorial Makeout Point."

Futurama: The Beast With A Billion Backs

• A robot with features from the re-imagined Centurion works the capstan on the pirate spaceship during Bender's attack on the alien Yivo. Later the same robot is seen fighting in the background, using needle/razor fingered hands as on the re-imagined Centurion.

God Bless America

• The main character Frank Murdoch assumes that his accomplice Chloe liked the "new Battlestar Galactica".

The House Bunny

• Natalie mentions this to Colby while eating a hot dog

Lucky Number Slevin

• A Battlestar Galactica poster is seen.

Nexus Generation: Fans & Filmmakers

• Cylons are mentioned as being influenced by Blade Runner

Sydney White

• One of the characters is offended by the joke that Adama is a Cylon.

The Terminators

• Some robots are programmed to think there are human. (like Final Five, Sharon Valerii)
• There is Airlock in this film.

Related imagery

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  Robot with neck cowl and eye shape/color in Beast With A Billion Backs.
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  Cylon War Memorial Makeout Point in Bender's Big Score.

Music

Battlestar

• Gabriel Hogan, son of Michael and Susan Hogan (Saul Tigh and Doyle Franks) is involved with a band named Battlestar in honor of his father's involvement on Battlestar Galactica.

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• Jonathan Coulton wrote a song entitled "Battle of Galactica", possibly named after the ride of the same name. It is sung to the theme of the original Battlestar Galactica or the Re-imagined Series' Colonial anthem.

The Crashtones

• Samuel Witwer's rock band, the The Crashtones takes it name from the callsign of his character in the re-imagined series: Alex "Crashdown" Quartararo.

Depeche Mode Remix

• Remixes for their album Playing the Angel features one for the song "Precious" using dialogue from Number Six and Gaius Baltar from the episode "Six Degrees of Separation".

Incubus

• Incubus has made a song entitled "Battlestar Scralatchica".

Live Performances

Lewis Black: Luther Burbank Performing Arts Center Blues

• On track six of the CD, entitled "Justin and Janet," Lewis Black describes Janet Jackson's costume at the controversial 2004 Halftime Show as being the uniform of the captain of the Battlestar Galactica.

Television

See References to the Re-imagined Series (Television).

Literature

Avatars Trilogy

• Several characters in the Avatars trilogy by Tui T. Sutherland reference Battlestar Galactica on several occasions. The brothers Gus and Andrew recall watching the entire series on DVD (which has been off the air for three years in the book's time frame of December 2012), Andrew wishes to name his first born daughter Kara, and Gus uses derivatives of frak on occasion.

More Information Than You Require

• John Hodgman claims that the original Battlestar Galactica was a "re-imagining" of the classic Battlestar Galactica radio program of the 1920s.

Star Trek

• In the Vanguard novel Reap the Whirlwind by David Mack, two minor characters are named "Agent Verheiden" and "Agent Cofell". Moreover, a Captain Rymer is mentioned.

Star Wars

• In the Legacy of the Force novel Invincible on page 85, Leia Solo suggests distracting Darth Caedus during a battle by sending him an episode of BattleSun Odyssey.

Comics

Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight

• In issue #18 of Time of Your Life, the swear word frak is used.

Deadpool

• Deadpool and Weasel catch up as friends by watching TiVo'd episodes of "Battlestar Galactica".

Star Wars

• The swear word, frak, makes an appearance in the comic Star Wars Legacy 2: Broken, Part 2.

Video games

FreeSpace 2

• One of the Vasudan pilots respond to orders with the phrase, "By your command".

Webcomics/Comic strips

See References to the Re-imagined Series (Webcomics).

Podcasts

StarTalk Live

• On Neil deGrasse Tyson's radio show StarTalk Radio, comedian Leighann Lord pretends to be a computer voice saying "Launch Colonial Viper 1."

Thrilling Adventure Hour

• In the Beyond Belief episode "Teenagers of the Corn", Frank Doyle agrees with "So say we all" in response to his wife Sadie's prettiness.

Radio

The Hour of Slack

• In The Hour of Slack episode #1361, performance artist Zero Boy said Cylons overruled a Klingon criminal he was paid to follow.

Others

• Entering "about:robots" in the Firefox 3 address bar displays a few wise words about robots. After references to The Day the Earth Stood Still, Asimov's first law of robotics, Blade Runner, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Futurama it concludes with "And they have a plan."
• In the humorous browser-based MMORPG Kingdom of Loathing, the El Vibrato helmet is described as allowing "a weird blue light sweeping back and forth where your eyes should be, like some sort of depressed Cylon."
• The Onion's Friday 17th 2008 mock radio news broadcast announced the launch of Battlestar Galactica: Miami.
• Some episodes of the Star Trek audio series Star Trek: The Section 31 Files uses music from Battlestar Galactica, though no references to its story.

External links

• IMDb's Movie Connections for Battlestar Galactica (2003)
• IMDb's Movie Connections for Battlestar Galactica (2004)
• Depeche Mode's "Precious" (Disco Mix) mp3