Talk:Brendan Costanza/Archive 1

2007-09-13T21:41:50Z

Cavalier One:

==Rank==
I don't think we can assume Hot Dog is a Lieutenant just because Kat is. She's a much better flier than he is (she flies on par with Starbuck, apparently), so she may have been fast tracked a bit. I'm not saying Hot Dog ''sucks'', but just that he's a "normal" pilot. I wouldn't be surprised at all if Kat had earned a promotion to Lt. JG for being a badass. That's on the promotion paper work, you know. "Badass" is. You know... Reason for Requested Promotion: Valor [ ] Bravery [ ] Extended, Quality Service [ ] Badassery [X]. I'm sure of it. --[[User:Day|Day]] 03:06, 4 February 2006 (EST)

:She was still nothing special in Final Cut, which was when we learned her rank, although perhaps we should just leave his rank as unknown. --[[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 03:09, 4 February 2006 (EST)

::Hey, Hot Dog bravely assisted Starbuck in Act of Contrition, and destinguished himself well in the Battle of the Tylium Asteroid. My point is that he's one of the (what, like 3?) few surviving original batch of nuggets, so he's been in there a LONG time, plus he was pretty good to begin with (everyone else was a "boonie-jumper", he was a Viper academy washout). So although we really arent ''sure'' of his rank, I think he's most probably a Lieutenant. --[[User:Ricimer|Ricimer]] 03:14, 4 February 2006 (EST)

::: Okay. I'm convinced. Good thing I didn't edit it. Now I don't have to revert myself. *wink* --[[User:Day|Day]] 04:29, 4 February 2006 (EST)

:::: Hotdog may be a Lieutenant at the time of LDYB or even already at the time of "Scar", but he probably he wasn't one in "Final Cut." At least this is what I infer from Lee's dialogue: "Constanza, get the hell outta here. It's the last time you come in a senior officers quarters, go, move." Kat, however, appears to be allowed to stay there. But then again, I have no military experience whatsoever, so I'm not sure whether Lieutenants are senior officers or not. -- [[User:Pedda|Pedda]] 07:54, 18 August 2006 (CDT)

:::::Going by the uniform piping, everything up to Major is a "junior" officer. However, I'd imagine that- in this case- Lee was referring to the seniority of the pilots in question. --[[User:Madbrood|Madbrood]] 13:05, 29 September 2006 (CDT)

::::::Just watching ''[[Unfinished Business]]'', and I swear that when Tigh calls Hot Dog's name, he calls him "Captain Hot Dog". Can anyone else confirm that? If so, his rank needs updating. - [[User:Cavalier One|Cavalier One]] 16:41, 13 September 2007 (CDT)

==Spelling of name==

The organizational chart in "The Passage" showed his name spelled as Brendan Costanza with one "N". Other episodes have spelled his name with two "N's". Kind of confusing. {{unsigned|123home123}}
:Probably just another props goof, like the Raygun nametag --[[User:Mercifull|Mercifull]] <sup>([[User talk:Mercifull|Talk]]/[[Special:Contributions/Mercifull|Contribs]])</sup> 03:52, 11 December 2006 (CST)

==Fighter Type==
Is Hot Dog the only senior pilot who's never been seen in the cockpit of a MkVII? We see in season two Kat has her own Mk.VII, as well as Starbuck and Apollo. And yet we've only ever seen HotDog in Mk.IIs. Any speculation? {{unsigned|AnteaterFeeder}}

:It's probably just a coincidence. The first few intakes of nuggets were trained on Mk. IIs. The first time we saw cadets flying Mk. VIIs was in "Scar". I don't think we saw him in the cockpit in that episode, and the only time we've seen him in flight since is in Exodus, part II. --[[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 16:23, 18 January 2007 (CST)

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