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God (RDM)

2007-07-10T02:18:03Z

Strangefreeworld: Added the exodus experience from both sides.

[[Image:Bscap059.jpg|thumb|250px|"I am an instrument of God" --[[Gaius Baltar|Baltar]] in [[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]]]

:''This page is about God as depicted and worshiped by the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons in the Re-imagined Series]].''
:''For information on Cylon religion in general, see [[Cylon Religion]].''
:''For information on the Colonial deities in the Re-imagined Series, see [[Religion in the Twelve Colonies (RDM)#The Lords of Kobol]].''
:''For information on the nature of God to the Colonials in the Original Series, see [[God (TOS)]].''

The [[Humanoid Cylon|humanoid Cylons]] worship a deity they call only by the name of '''God'''.

The Cylons justify or attribute much of their actions, including the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|genocidal attack against humanity]], as a requirement of their God.

The Cylons profess a series of commandments given by their God. However, the specific commandments have not fully revealed.

While very knowledgeable of the [[Religion in the Twelve Colonies#Lords of Kobol|Lords of Kobol]], the Cylons feel that the Colonials worship false gods ([[Home, Part I]])<ref>Despite the [[Religion in the Twelve Colonies|parallelism]] of the Lords of Kobol with the Olympian Gods of real-world Earth mythology, the parallelisms of the [[Wikipedia:Abrahamic conceptions of God|Judeo-Christian God]] are fewer. In "[[Occupation]]", Leoben Conoy prays before a meal, using a prayer that begins with "Heavenly father." When several dying Cylons are found on a [[Basestar (RDM)|baseship]], they crawl together and [[Prayer to the Cloud of Unknowing|begin a prayer]] that also includes "Heavenly father."</ref>.

==Notable References==

* "Maybe the Cylons are God's retribution for our many sins. What if God decided he made a mistake and he decided to give souls to another creature, like the Cylons?" -- [[Leoben Conoy]], [[Miniseries, Night 2]]
* "God didn't create the Cylons. Man did. And I'm pretty sure we didn't include a soul in the programming." -- William Adama, Miniseries
* "I was right. See, our faiths are similar but I look to one God, not to many." -- Leoben Conoy, "[[Flesh and Bone]]"
* "To know the face of God is to know madness. I see the universe. I see the patterns. I see the foreshadowing that precedes every moment of every day. It's all there, I see it and you don't." -- Leoben Conoy, "Flesh and Bone"
* "I am more than you could ever imagine. I am God." -- Leoben Conoy, "Flesh and Bone"
* "It's funny, isn't it? We're all God, Starbuck, all of us. I see the love that binds all living things together. ... I know that God loved you more than all other living creatures and you repaid his divine love with sin, with hate, corruption, evil. So then he decided to create the Cylons." -- Leoben Conoy, "Flesh and Bone"
* "And this time, your role...you have to deliver my soul unto God. Do it for me. It's [[The Destiny|your destiny, and mine]]." -- Leoben Conoy, "Flesh and Bone"
* "Procreation, it’s one of God’s commandments, be fruitful. We can’t fulfill it we tried so we decided to <nowiki>[</nowiki>''create [[farms]]''<nowiki>]</nowiki>." -- [[Sharon Agathon|Caprica-Valerii]], "[[The Farm]]"

===Judeo-Christian References===
[[Image:Gaius crucifiction pose.jpg|thumb|Baltar in "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]"]]

The Re-imagined Series contains few references to [[Wikipedia:Judeo-Christian|Judeo-Christian]] concepts.

* "Jesus." -- Colonel Tigh, Miniseries<ref>According to [[Ronald D. Moore|RDM]], the "Jesus" line was an [[Wikipedia:ad-lib|ad-lib]] by [[Michael Hogan]]. Therefore, it should not be taken as a serious reference to [[Wikipedia:Christianity|Christianity]].</ref>

* "I was... [Six: ''Am.''] I am..." -- [[Gaius Baltar]], "[[The Hand of God]]" (full quote in previous section)

* "Come on, Jim. [[Wallace Gray]] is no 'prince of darkness.'" -- [[Playa Palacios]], "[[Colonial Day]]"

* "I figured, the devil you know..." -- [[Laura Roslin]], "Colonial Day"

* "God is love" -- Number Six, Miniseries, (1 John 4:16)

The "I am" statement in "[[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]" is noteworthy because of the self-description that the Judeo-Christian God gives to Moses in the Book of Exodus, [[Wikipedia:I am that I am|"I am that I am"]]. The Christian messiah, Jesus, has a series of "I am" statements in the New Testament of the Bible. The Bible contains over 300 "I am" statements. The Hebrew name for God, [[Wikipedia:Yahweh|Yahweh]], is derived from the Hebrew word for "I am" or "to be".

The five priests of the [[Temple of Five]] worshiped a "god whose name must not be spoken." In Jewish tradition, the name of God (Yahweh) is not spoken. In a [[List of Deleted Scenes (RDM)#Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I|deleted scene]] ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]), [[Elosha]] states that the exodus from Kobol was precipitated when "one jealous god began to desire that he be elevated above all the other gods, and the war on Kobol began." The 1st commandment requires the faithful have no other god before Yahweh.

A number of elements from the show derive from Mormonism, the religion of series creator [[Glen Larson]]. In particular, the concept of a lost [[Thirteenth Tribe (RDM)|Thirteenth Tribe]] is from Mormon legend. The [[Quorum of Twelve]] is also a Mormon concept.

A curious parallel to the series is found in the [[Wikipedia:Messiah|messianic]] figure of the Old Testament, [[Wikipedia:Moses|Moses]], who led the Israelites out of the Egyptian captivity into the promised land. He actually did not live to lead the Israelites into the promised land because he doubted the water coming from the stone (Numbers 20:12). This parallels the [[Pythia|Pythian prophecy]] of the leader (presumed to be [[Laura Roslin]]) ,who, according to the [[Sacred Scrolls]], will not live to see the promised land of Earth ([[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]).

The name of [[Pergamus Flats]] (a location on [[New Caprica]]) is similar to [[Wikipedia:Pergamus|Pergamus]], a city mentioned in Revelations 2:12.

Both the [[Colonials]] and the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]] have had an experience similar to the Jewish exodus from Egypt; the Cylons following the [[Cylon_War|war with the colonies]], the Colonials following their [[Exodus,_Part_II|escape from New Caprica]].

==Official statements==

*In an [http://www.battlestargalactica.com/outside_docs/bg_outdoc0050.htm interview with BattlestarGalactica.com on December 28th, 2005] RDM was asked about fan speculation that the Cylon God may be Count Iblis in the Re-imagined Series:

: Q: "There's speculation that Count Iblis' counterpart in this series is the as-yet-unseen Cylon God. Is there any possibility that elements of the original series "War of the Gods" storyline may weave themselves into the new series?

:RDM: While I have thought of incorporating the Count Iblis/Ship of Lights mythology from the original show into the series, I've pretty much decided not to go there for now. The theological construct we've been establishing seems more interesting to me at this point and I don't think Iblis will be part of the current show."

*RDM noted in his [[podcast]] of "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]", that the original ending of Season One called for actor [[Dirk Benedict]] to appear to [[Gaius Baltar|Baltar]] on [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]] and introduce himself as "God". Numerous prohibiting factors prevented this storyline from making it on camera, chief among them was Moore's confessed inability to write a feasible conclusion to the surprise revelation at the time. Another mitigating factor which influenced Moore to drop the idea was that when he revealed his idea to the other writers, the entire writing team found the idea simply revolting, so Moore acquiesced.

* In an interview at beliefnet.com (http://www.beliefnet.com/story/166/story_16650_3.html) RDM makes the following statement in response to the question:
:Q: " In “Galactica 1980,” we actually meet the “Imperious Commander” of the Cylons who turns out to be the Devil in the guise of a humanoid. Will we ever meet the maker of the Cylons in this version?

:A: I think if we ever found an answer to why the Cylons have a god or who the god is--you know, the guy steps out from behind the curtain--I think you’d be disappointed. They’re in an interesting place in that their faith is as legitimate as the human faith. Human beings have souls given by the gods, and Cylons have a soul given by their one true god and that has to be just as valid. That means there is a plan for their soul and something for them after they die too. It’s a fundamental element of their faith. "

== See Also ==

[[Cylon Religion]]

==References==
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[[Category:A to Z]]
[[Category:Colonial]]
[[Category:Colonial History]]
[[Category:Colonial History (RDM)]]
[[Category:Colonial Religion]]
[[Category:Colonial Religion (RDM)]]
[[Category:Colonial Society]]
[[Category:Colonial Society (RDM)]]
[[Category:Cylon Religion (RDM)]]
[[Category:Cylons]]
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God (RDM)

2007-03-25T01:28:34Z

Strangefreeworld: /* Judeo-Christian References */

[[Image:Bscap059.jpg|thumb|250px|"I am an instrument of God" --[[Gaius Baltar|Baltar]] in [[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]]]

In the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Re-imagined Series]], '''God''' is a deity worshipped by the [[Humanoid Cylon|humanoid Cylons]]. The Cylons justify or attribute much of their actions, including the genocidal attack against humanity, as a requirement of their God.

The Cylons profess a series of commandments given by their God. However, the specific commandments have not been revealed in full as yet in the series.

All Cylons (except for the atheistic [[Cavil]]) espouse monotheistic views. [[Leoben Conoy]]'s "We are all God" philosophy is reflective of [[Wikipedia:Gnosticism|Gnosticism]].

While very knowledgeable of the [[Religion in the Twelve Colonies#Lords of Kobol|Lords of Kobol]], the Cylons feel that the Colonials worship false gods ([[Home, Part I]]). Colonials often use "God" in exclamations of surprise, despite their polythesisic practices.

Despite the [[Religion in the Twelve Colonies|parallelism]] of the Lords of Kobol with the Olympian Gods of real-world Earth mythology, it is unclear if the Cylon God is a parallel of the [[Wikipedia:Abrahamic conceptions of God|Judeo-Christian God]].

To minimize bias, the article notes quotes from several characters on the concept of God in the Re-imagined Series.

===Monotheistic References===

* "Oh, my God". "Thank God," or similar exclamations in the [[Miniseries]] -- [[William Adama]], the mother of the baby in the Miniseries, [[Gaius Baltar]], [[Jackson Spencer]], the [[Jack|man]] on comlink to [[Laura Roslin]]
* "That, and God wanted me to help you." -- [[Number Six]], Miniseries

* "Maybe the Cylons are God's retribution for our many sins. What if God decided he made a mistake and he decided to give souls to another creature, like the Cylons?" -- [[Leoben Conoy]], Miniseries

* "God didn't create the Cylons. Man did. And I'm pretty sure we didn't include a soul in the programming." -- William Adama, Miniseries

* "And what I want most of all is for you to love me... Don't you understand? God is love." - [[Virtual beings#Baltar's Virtual Six|internal Six]], Miniseries

* "God has a plan for you, Gaius. He has a plan for everything and everyone. Gaius - are you even listening to me?" -- internal Six, "[[33]]"
* "Procreation is one of God's commandments." -- internal Six, "33"
* "God is watching out for you, Gaius." -- internal Six, "33"
* "A connection, maybe, but not God. There is no God, or gods, singular or plural. There are no large, invisible men (or women, for that matter) in the sky, taking a personal interest in the fortunes of Gaius Baltar." -- Gaius Baltar, "33"
* "Be careful. That which God gives He can also take away." -- internal Six, "33"
* "It's God's punishment for your lack of faith." -- internal Six, "33"
* "God's got nothing to do with this." -- Gaius Baltar, "33"
* "It's God's choice. He wants you to repent." -- internal Six, "33"

* "Pilots call me "Starbuck", you may refer to me as 'God'." -- [[Kara Thrace]], "[[Act of Contrition]]"

* "God answers everyone's prayers." -- [[Leoben Conoy]], "[[Flesh and Bone]]"
* "God, you stink. Can we get some air in here? Between you and the humidity..." -- Leoben Conoy to Kara Thrace, "Flesh and Bone"
* "I was right. See, our faiths are similar but I look to one God, not to many." -- Leoben Conoy, "Flesh and Bone"
* "To know the face of God is to know madness. I see the universe. I see the patterns. I see the foreshadowing that precedes every moment of every day. It's all there, I see it and you don't." -- Leoben Conoy, "Flesh and Bone"
* "I am more than you could ever imagine. I am God." -- Leoben Conoy, "Flesh and Bone"
* "I'm sorry, you're God? Wow... nice to meet ya. That's good, that's good. We'll give you a couple of minutes for that." -- Kara Thrace, "Flesh and Bone"
* "It's funny, isn't it? We're all God, Starbuck, all of us. I see the love that binds all living things together. ... I know that God loved you more than all other living creatures and you repaid his divine love with sin, with hate, corruption, evil. So then he decided to create the Cylons." -- Leoben Conoy, "Flesh and Bone"
* "It's your chance to find out if you're really God or just a bunch of circuits with a bad haircut. ... Somebody's programmed you with a fairy tale of God and streams and life ever after but, somewhere in that hard drive that you call a brain is a beeping message: 'Error, error, does not compute. I don't have a soul, I have software. If I die, I'm gone.'" -- Kara Thrace, "Flesh and Bone"
* "And this time, your role...you have to deliver my soul unto God. Do it for me. It's your destiny, and mine." -- Leoben Conoy, "Flesh and Bone"
* "He's not afraid to die. He's just afraid that his soul won't make it to God." -- Kara Thrace, "Flesh and Bone"

* "Oh good, I suppose God doesn't want me to destroy the base, because he's the Cylon god, right?", [[Gaius Baltar]], [[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]
* "God doesn't take sides. He only wants your love. Open your heart to him and he'll show you the way." -- internal Six, "The Hand of God"
* "He didn't speak to me. God didn't speak to me. So I was totally lying. I just picked that spot at random." -- Gaius Baltar, "The Hand of God"
* "He doesn't always speak in words, Gaius." -- internal Six, "The Hand of God"
* "Are you telling me that God guided my finger to that target for some... arcane scriptural purpose?" -- Gaius Baltar, "The Hand of God"
* "You are part of God's plan, Gaius." -- internal Six, "The Hand of God"
* "So God wanted me to destroy the Cylon base." -- Gaius Baltar, "The Hand of God"
* "You did well. You gave yourself over to Him." -- internal Six, "The Hand of God"
* "Yes, suppose I did. Yes, there's-- there's really no other logical explanation for it. I was - [Six: ''Am.''] - I am an instrument of God." -- Gaius Baltar, "The Hand of God"

* "I know you're very close with Adama -- and I know he's a good man, and I know he's had to make some very hard choices... Lord knows I have." -- [[Helena Cain]], "[[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]"
* "Tens of thousands of Cylons are about to die, tens of thousands, Gaius! God will not forgive this sin!" -- Number Six, "Resurrection Ship, Part II"
* "Do you think God will forgive us?" -- Gaius Baltar, "Resurrection Ship, Part II"
* "God forgives all." -- [[Gina]], "Resurrection Ship, Part II"

* "God loves me!" -- [[Number Three]], "[[Downloaded]]"
* "You've committed a monstrous and unforgiveable sin, and you and your entire wretched race are going to suffer God's vengeance!" -- Number Six, "Downloaded"



===Judeo-Christian References===
[[Image:Gaius crucifiction pose.jpg|thumb|Baltar in "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]"]]

The Re-imagined Series contains few references to [[Wikipedia:Judeo-Christian|Judeo-Christian]] concepts such as [[Wikipedia:Jesus|Jesus]] and [[Wikipedia:Satan|Satan]].

* "Jesus." -- Colonel Tigh, Miniseries<ref>According to [[Ronald D. Moore|RDM]], the "jesus" line was an [[Wikipedia:ad-lib|ad-lib]] by [[Michael Hogan]]. Therefore, it should not be taken as a serious reference to [[Wikipedia:Christianity|Christianity]].</ref>

* "I was... [Six: Am.] I am..." -- Gaius Baltar|Baltar, "The Hand of God" (full quote in previous section)

* "Come on, Jim. [[Wallace Gray]] is no 'prince of darkness.'" -- [[Playa Palacios]], "[[Colonial Day]]"

* "I figured, the devil you know..." -- [[Laura Roslin]], "Colonial Day"

* "God is love" -- Number Six, Miniseries, (1 John 4:16)

The "I am" statement in "[[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]" is noteworthy because of the self-description that the Judeo-Christian God gives to Moses in the Book of Exodus, [[Wikipedia:I am that I am|"I am that I am"]]. The Christian messiah, Jesus, has a series of "I am" statements in the New Testament of the Bible. The Bible contains over 300 "I am" statements. The Hebrew name for God, [[Wikipedia:Yahweh|Yahweh]], is derived from the Hebrew word for "I am" or "to be".

A curious parallel to the series is found in the [[Wikipedia:Messiah|messianic]] figure of the Old Testament, [[Wikipedia:Moses|Moses]], who led the Israelites out of the Egyptian captivity into the promised land. He actually did not live to lead the Israelites into the promised land because he doubted the water coming from the stone (Numbers 20:12). This parallels the [[Pythia|Pythian prophecy]] of the leader (presumed to be [[Laura Roslin]]) ,who, according to the [[Sacred Scrolls]], will not live to see the promised land of Earth ([[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]).

The name of [[Pergamus Flats]] (a location on [[New Caprica]]) is similar to [[Wikipedia:Pegamus|Pergamus]], a city mentioned in Revelation 2:12.

==In the Original Series==

In the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]], [[Lucifer]] was a name of an [[IL-series]] [[Cylon]]. ''Lucifer'' is also a name for [[Wikipedia:Satan|Satan]].

[[Iblis|Count Iblis]] is a [[Wikipedia:Satan|Satan]]-like figure, and [[Wikipedia:Iblis|Iblis]] is the Satan of Islam.

[[Wikipedia:Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints|The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] was reportedly an inspiration for some of the Original Series, as series creator [[Glen A. Larson]] is a member of this faith.

==Official statements==

*In an [http://www.battlestargalactica.com/outside_docs/bg_outdoc0050.htm interview with BattlestarGalactica.com on December 28th, 2005] RDM was asked about fan speculation that the Cylon God may be Count Iblis in the Re-imagined Series:

: Q: "There's speculation that Count Iblis' counterpart in this series is the as-yet-unseen Cylon God. Is there any possibility that elements of the original series "War of the Gods" storyline may weave themselves into the new series?

:RDM: While I have thought of incorporating the Count Iblis/Ship of Lights mythology from the original show into the series, I've pretty much decided not to go there for now. The theological construct we've been establishing seems more interesting to me at this point and I don't think Iblis will be part of the current show."

*RDM noted in his [[podcast]] of "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]", that the original ending of Season One called for actor [[Dirk Benedict]] to appear to [[Gaius Baltar|Baltar]] on [[Kobol]] and introduce himself as "God". Numerous prohibiting factors prevented this storyline from making it on camera, chief among them was Moore's confessed inability to write a feasible conclusion to the surprise revelation at the time. Another mitigating factor which influenced Moore to drop the idea was that when he revealed his idea to the other writers, the entire writing team found the idea simply revolting, so Moore acquiesced.

* In an interview at beliefnet.com (http://www.beliefnet.com/story/166/story_16650_3.html) RDM makes the following statement in response to the question:
:Q: " In “Galactica 1980,” we actually meet the “Imperious Commander” of the Cylons who turns out to be the Devil in the guise of a humanoid. Will we ever meet the maker of the Cylons in this version?

:A: I think if we ever found an answer to why the Cylons have a god or who the god is--you know, the guy steps out from behind the curtain--I think you’d be disappointed. They’re in an interesting place in that their faith is as legitimate as the human faith. Human beings have souls given by the gods, and Cylons have a soul given by their one true god and that has to be just as valid. That means there is a plan for their soul and something for them after they die too. It’s a fundamental element of their faith. "

==References==
<div style="font-size:85%"><references/></div>

[[Category:A to Z]]
[[Category:Colonial]]
[[Category:Colonial History]]
[[Category:Colonial History (RDM)]]
[[Category:Colonial Religion]]
[[Category:Colonial Religion (RDM)]]
[[Category:Colonial Society]]
[[Category:Colonial Society (RDM)]]
[[Category:Cylons]]
[[Category:Cylons (RDM)]]
[[Category:RDM]]

Battlestar Wiki:Podcast Transcripts

2006-06-24T00:45:33Z

Strangefreeworld: /* Season 2 podcasts */

{{project|Podcast Transcripts|image=BSG WIKI Podcast.png|shortcut=BW:POD}}
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This project is a daughter of the [[Battlestar Wiki:Citation Jihad|Citation Jihad]].

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====Season 1 podcasts====
*[[Podcast:Colonial Day|Colonial Day]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/111/bsg_ep111_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Misco|Misco]] 11:02, 15 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:25, 16 March 2006 (CST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/111/bsg_ep111_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/111/bsg_ep111_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/111/bsg_ep111_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/111/bsg_ep111_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II|Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/113/bsg_ep113_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
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====Season 2 podcasts====
*[[Podcast:Scattered|Scattered]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/201/bsg_ep201_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Huh?|Huh?]] 11:15, 23 May 2006 (CDT). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:14, 23 May 2006 (CDT).)
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**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/201/bsg_ep201_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/201/bsg_ep201_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Valley of Darkness|Valley of Darkness]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/202/bsg_ep202_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/202/bsg_ep202_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/202/bsg_ep202_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/202/bsg_ep202_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/202/bsg_ep202_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Resistance|Resistance]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/204/bsg_ep204_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/204/bsg_ep204_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/204/bsg_ep204_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/204/bsg_ep204_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/204/bsg_ep204_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:The Farm|The Farm]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/205/bsg_ep205_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/205/bsg_ep205_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/205/bsg_ep205_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/205/bsg_ep205_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/205/bsg_ep205_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Home, Part I|Home, Part I]] (with David Eick)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/206/bsg_ep206_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/206/bsg_ep206_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/206/bsg_ep206_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/206/bsg_ep206_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/206/bsg_ep206_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Home, Part II|Home, Part II]] (with David Eick)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/207/bsg_ep207_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/207/bsg_ep207_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/207/bsg_ep207_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/207/bsg_ep207_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/207/bsg_ep207_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Final Cut|Final Cut]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/208/bsg_ep208_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/208/bsg_ep208_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/208/bsg_ep208_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/208/bsg_ep208_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/208/bsg_ep208_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Resurrection Ship, Part II|Resurrection Ship, Part II]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/212/bsg_ep212_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/212/bsg_ep212_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/212/bsg_ep212_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/212/bsg_ep212_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/212/bsg_ep212_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Black Market|Black Market]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/214/bsg_ep214_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/214/bsg_ep214_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/214/bsg_ep214_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/214/bsg_ep214_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/214/bsg_ep214_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Scar|Scar]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/215/bsg_ep215_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/215/bsg_ep215_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/215/bsg_ep215_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/215/bsg_ep215_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/215/bsg_ep215_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II|Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/220/bsg_ep220_1of7.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 18:17, 11 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 14:00, 13 March 2006 (CST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/220/bsg_ep220_2of7.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 22:32, 14 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:11, 16 March 2006 (CST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/220/bsg_ep220_3of7.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 17:32, 19 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:21, 20 March 2006 (CST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/220/bsg_ep220_4of7.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 17:34, 8 April 2006 (CDT). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 11:37, 10 April 2006 (CDT).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/220/bsg_ep220_5of7.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/220/bsg_ep220_6of7.mp3 Act 5] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/220/bsg_ep220_7of7.mp3 Act 6] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
=== Verification Required ===
====Season 2 podcasts====
*[[Podcast:Pegasus|Pegasus]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/210/bsg_ep210_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Ricimer|Ricimer]] 22:25, 14 December 2005 (EST). Verified: [[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 05:22, 15 December 2005 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/210/bsg_ep210_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 11:38, 21 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 21:58, 22 March 2006 (CST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/210/bsg_ep210_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 14:23, 30 March 2006 (CST). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/210/bsg_ep210_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:23, 11 April 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/210/bsg_ep210_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:35, 17 April 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Sacrifice|Sacrifice]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/216/bsg_ep216_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:14, 18 May 2006 (CDT). Verified: [[User:strangefreeworld|strangefreeworld]] 22:30, 27 May 2006 (EDT).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/216/bsg_ep216_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 12:13, 24 May 2006 (CDT). Verified: [[User:strangefreeworld|strangefreeworld]] 16:11, 28 May 2006 (EDT).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/216/bsg_ep216_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:19, 5 June 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/216/bsg_ep216_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 11:25, 6 June 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/216/bsg_ep216_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:45, 8 June 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:The Captain's Hand|The Captain's Hand]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/217/bsg_ep217_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:28, 2 May 2006 (CDT). Verified: [[User:strangefreeworld|strangefreeworld]] 21:10, 5 June 2006 (EDT).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/217/bsg_ep217_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 15:39, 3 May 2006 (CDT). Verified: [[User:strangefreeworld|strangefreeworld]] 21:20, 5 June 2006 (EDT).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/217/bsg_ep217_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 11:59, 5 May 2006 (CDT). Verified: [[User:strangefreeworld|strangefreeworld]] 19:30, 11 June 2006 (EDT).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/217/bsg_ep217_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 14:00, 8 May 2006 (CDT). Verified: [[User:strangefreeworld|strangefreeworld]] 19:45, 11 June 2006 (EDT).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/217/bsg_ep217_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 15:32, 9 May 2006 (CDT). Verified: [[User:strangefreeworld|strangefreeworld]] 20:50, 23 June 2006 (EDT).)
*[[Podcast:Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I|Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/219/bsg_ep219_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 08:30, 19 April 2006 (CDT). Verified: [[User:Shane|Shane]] ([[User_Talk:Shane|T]] - [[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]]) 11:30, 8 May 2006 (CDT).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/219/bsg_ep219_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 16:21, 19 April 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/219/bsg_ep219_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 11:20, 20 April 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/219/bsg_ep219_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 14:20, 21 April 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/219/bsg_ep219_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 10:31, 24 April 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)

=== Transcription Complete ===
====Season 1 podcasts====
*[[Podcast:Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down|Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]
*[[Podcast:The Hand of God|The Hand of God]]
*[[Podcast:Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I|Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]
====Season 2 podcasts====
*[[Podcast:Flight of the Phoenix|Flight of the Phoenix]]
*[[Podcast:Resurrection Ship, Part I|Resurrection Ship, Part I]]
*[[Podcast:Epiphanies|Epiphanies]]
*[[Podcast:Downloaded|Downloaded]]

==Disputes==
Members of Battlestar Wiki with experience in acoustic phonetics are listed below. They may be able to help with pronunciation issues.

*[[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]]

[[Category: Podcasts]]

Battlestar Wiki:Podcast Transcripts

2006-06-13T00:57:29Z

Strangefreeworld: /* Season 2 podcasts */

{{project|Podcast Transcripts|image=BSG WIKI Podcast.png|shortcut=BW:POD}}
This project is meant to coordinate and standardize the transcription of [[Ronald D. Moore]]'s freely available episode podcasts. Our goal is to produce a searchable text repository for purposes of citation. At this time, we will only be transcribing freely available podcasts from [http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/ SciFi.com], not additonal DVD commentaries. Ron D. Moore and David Eick have recorded commentary tracks for the [[Miniseries]] (also including director Michael Rymer), "[[33]]", "[[Bastille Day]]", "[[Act of Contrition]]", and "[[You Can't Go Home Again]]". However, they have not been put up online for free but are only available in the Season 1 DVD set. Therefore, transcripts of these are not provided here, though relevant quotes may be found sourced in certain articles on Battlestar Wiki.

This project is a daughter of the [[Battlestar Wiki:Citation Jihad|Citation Jihad]].

==Standards==

===Namespace===
Podcast transcripts should be named after the episode to which they correspond with the addition of the (podcast) namespace, for example, [[Podcast:Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]].

===Structure===
Begin each podcast article with the template:
:<nowiki>{{podcast|author=YourNameHere|emailAuthor2=|suffix=|additionalCopyright=}}</nowiki>

Use first-level headings to divide Teaser and Act breaks. Make each heading an offsite link to the appropriate podcast segment, e.g.

==[<nowiki>http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/109/bsg_ep109_1of5.mp3</nowiki> Teaser]==

Try to break up RDMs comments into paragraphs along topical lines.

For those podcasts that are not [[Ronald D. Moore]]'s, please refer to {{tl|podcastother}} for transcribing other podcasts.

===Transcription===
RDM frequently uses "uh", "um" and "y'know" as discourse particles. For readabilities sake, try to exclude these where they interrupt the flow of an otherwise grammatical sentence.

Where RDM interrupts himself, end the last word of the first statement with an emdash. You may include whatever discourse particles he uses to introduce the next thought. For example:

"I think it's a very good movie, one that I always thought was a— y'know, prime for us to do a riff on."

Generally, you may ignore emphasis except where RDM's tone is critical to the interpretation of a statement (e.g. sarcasm).

===Links===
Where RDM mentions a BSG episode or character, link to our own article. Where he mentions a television show or actor which we do not have (or need) our own article for, offer a link to the corresponding page on IMDB. If another resource such as Wikipedia or Memory Alpha has more comprehensive information, you may link there at your discretion. To avoid overlinking, only link once per act break.

===Corrections===
Except for simple spelling errors, do not offer a "correction" without first having listened to the relevant portion of the recording. Always leave a comment on the talk page explaining your change.

===Application===
[http://nch.com.au/scribe/index.html Express Scribe] is a piece of free software (they give it away in the hopes that you buy the tie-in products) that allows you to playback the podcasts with hotkey controls (so you can edit in the ''Battlestar Wiki'' window but still pause/rewind/play), as well as allowing for variable speed playback (so you can transcribe at a slower rate). Express Scribe also remembers where you left off when you open it, allowing you to resume work at the same spot.

==Checkins==
When you begin work on a transcription, place your name beside the segment you are working on. When you've completed and uploaded it, mark your name next to "Transcribed". Afterwards, it would be helpful for a second user to verify the transcription.
=== Transcription In Progress ===
====Season 1 podcasts====
*[[Podcast:Colonial Day|Colonial Day]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/111/bsg_ep111_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Misco|Misco]] 11:02, 15 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:25, 16 March 2006 (CST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/111/bsg_ep111_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/111/bsg_ep111_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/111/bsg_ep111_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/111/bsg_ep111_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II|Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/113/bsg_ep113_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/113/bsg_ep113_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/113/bsg_ep113_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/113/bsg_ep113_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/113/bsg_ep113_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)

====Season 2 podcasts====
*[[Podcast:Scattered|Scattered]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/201/bsg_ep201_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Huh?|Huh?]] 11:15, 23 May 2006 (CDT). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:14, 23 May 2006 (CDT).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/201/bsg_ep201_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/201/bsg_ep201_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/201/bsg_ep201_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/201/bsg_ep201_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Valley of Darkness|Valley of Darkness]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/202/bsg_ep202_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/202/bsg_ep202_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/202/bsg_ep202_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/202/bsg_ep202_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/202/bsg_ep202_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Resistance|Resistance]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/204/bsg_ep204_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/204/bsg_ep204_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/204/bsg_ep204_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/204/bsg_ep204_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/204/bsg_ep204_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:The Farm|The Farm]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/205/bsg_ep205_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/205/bsg_ep205_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/205/bsg_ep205_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/205/bsg_ep205_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/205/bsg_ep205_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Home, Part I|Home, Part I]] (with David Eick)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/206/bsg_ep206_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/206/bsg_ep206_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/206/bsg_ep206_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/206/bsg_ep206_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/206/bsg_ep206_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Home, Part II|Home, Part II]] (with David Eick)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/207/bsg_ep207_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/207/bsg_ep207_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/207/bsg_ep207_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/207/bsg_ep207_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/207/bsg_ep207_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Final Cut|Final Cut]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/208/bsg_ep208_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/208/bsg_ep208_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/208/bsg_ep208_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/208/bsg_ep208_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/208/bsg_ep208_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Resurrection Ship, Part II|Resurrection Ship, Part II]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/212/bsg_ep212_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/212/bsg_ep212_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/212/bsg_ep212_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/212/bsg_ep212_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/212/bsg_ep212_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Black Market|Black Market]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/214/bsg_ep214_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/214/bsg_ep214_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/214/bsg_ep214_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/214/bsg_ep214_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/214/bsg_ep214_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Scar|Scar]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/215/bsg_ep215_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/215/bsg_ep215_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/215/bsg_ep215_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/215/bsg_ep215_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/215/bsg_ep215_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II|Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/220/bsg_ep220_1of7.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 18:17, 11 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 14:00, 13 March 2006 (CST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/220/bsg_ep220_2of7.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 22:32, 14 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:11, 16 March 2006 (CST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/220/bsg_ep220_3of7.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 17:32, 19 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:21, 20 March 2006 (CST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/220/bsg_ep220_4of7.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 17:34, 8 April 2006 (CDT). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 11:37, 10 April 2006 (CDT).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/220/bsg_ep220_5of7.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/220/bsg_ep220_6of7.mp3 Act 5] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/220/bsg_ep220_7of7.mp3 Act 6] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
=== Verification Required ===
====Season 2 podcasts====
*[[Podcast:Pegasus|Pegasus]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/210/bsg_ep210_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Ricimer|Ricimer]] 22:25, 14 December 2005 (EST). Verified: [[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 05:22, 15 December 2005 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/210/bsg_ep210_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 11:38, 21 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 21:58, 22 March 2006 (CST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/210/bsg_ep210_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 14:23, 30 March 2006 (CST). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/210/bsg_ep210_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:23, 11 April 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/210/bsg_ep210_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:35, 17 April 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Sacrifice|Sacrifice]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/216/bsg_ep216_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:14, 18 May 2006 (CDT). Verified: [[User:strangefreeworld|strangefreeworld]] 22:30, 27 May 2006 (EDT).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/216/bsg_ep216_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 12:13, 24 May 2006 (CDT). Verified: [[User:strangefreeworld|strangefreeworld]] 16:11, 28 May 2006 (EDT).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/216/bsg_ep216_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:19, 5 June 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/216/bsg_ep216_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 11:25, 6 June 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/216/bsg_ep216_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:45, 8 June 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:The Captain's Hand|The Captain's Hand]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/217/bsg_ep217_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:28, 2 May 2006 (CDT). Verified: [[User:strangefreeworld|strangefreeworld]] 21:10, 5 June 2006 (EDT).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/217/bsg_ep217_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 15:39, 3 May 2006 (CDT). Verified: [[User:strangefreeworld|strangefreeworld]] 21:20, 5 June 2006 (EDT).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/217/bsg_ep217_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 11:59, 5 May 2006 (CDT). Verified: [[User:strangefreeworld|strangefreeworld]] 19:30, 11 June 2006 (EDT).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/217/bsg_ep217_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 14:00, 8 May 2006 (CDT). Verified: [[User:strangefreeworld|strangefreeworld]] 19:45, 11 June 2006 (EDT).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/217/bsg_ep217_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 15:32, 9 May 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I|Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/219/bsg_ep219_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 08:30, 19 April 2006 (CDT). Verified: [[User:Shane|Shane]] ([[User_Talk:Shane|T]] - [[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]]) 11:30, 8 May 2006 (CDT).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/219/bsg_ep219_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 16:21, 19 April 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/219/bsg_ep219_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 11:20, 20 April 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/219/bsg_ep219_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 14:20, 21 April 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/219/bsg_ep219_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 10:31, 24 April 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)

=== Transcription Complete ===
====Season 1 podcasts====
*[[Podcast:Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down|Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]
*[[Podcast:The Hand of God|The Hand of God]]
*[[Podcast:Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I|Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]
====Season 2 podcasts====
*[[Podcast:Flight of the Phoenix|Flight of the Phoenix]]
*[[Podcast:Resurrection Ship, Part I|Resurrection Ship, Part I]]
*[[Podcast:Epiphanies|Epiphanies]]
*[[Podcast:Downloaded|Downloaded]]

==Disputes==
Members of Battlestar Wiki with experience in acoustic phonetics are listed below. They may be able to help with pronunciation issues.

*[[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]]

[[Category: Podcasts]]

Battlestar Wiki:Podcast Transcripts

2006-06-10T12:22:51Z

Strangefreeworld: /* Season 1 podcasts */

{{project|Podcast Transcripts|image=BSG WIKI Podcast.png|shortcut=BW:POD}}
This project is meant to coordinate and standardize the transcription of [[Ronald D. Moore]]'s freely available episode podcasts. Our goal is to produce a searchable text repository for purposes of citation. At this time, we will only be transcribing freely available podcasts from [http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/ SciFi.com], not additonal DVD commentaries. Ron D. Moore and David Eick have recorded commentary tracks for the [[Miniseries]] (also including director Michael Rymer), "[[33]]", "[[Bastille Day]]", "[[Act of Contrition]]", and "[[You Can't Go Home Again]]". However, they have not been put up online for free but are only available in the Season 1 DVD set. Therefore, transcripts of these are not provided here, though relevant quotes may be found sourced in certain articles on Battlestar Wiki.

This project is a daughter of the [[Battlestar Wiki:Citation Jihad|Citation Jihad]].

==Standards==

===Namespace===
Podcast transcripts should be named after the episode to which they correspond with the addition of the (podcast) namespace, for example, [[Podcast:Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]].

===Structure===
Begin each podcast article with the template:
:<nowiki>{{podcast|author=YourNameHere|emailAuthor2=|suffix=|additionalCopyright=}}</nowiki>

Use first-level headings to divide Teaser and Act breaks. Make each heading an offsite link to the appropriate podcast segment, e.g.

==[<nowiki>http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/109/bsg_ep109_1of5.mp3</nowiki> Teaser]==

Try to break up RDMs comments into paragraphs along topical lines.

For those podcasts that are not [[Ronald D. Moore]]'s, please refer to {{tl|podcastother}} for transcribing other podcasts.

===Transcription===
RDM frequently uses "uh", "um" and "y'know" as discourse particles. For readabilities sake, try to exclude these where they interrupt the flow of an otherwise grammatical sentence.

Where RDM interrupts himself, end the last word of the first statement with an emdash. You may include whatever discourse particles he uses to introduce the next thought. For example:

"I think it's a very good movie, one that I always thought was a— y'know, prime for us to do a riff on."

Generally, you may ignore emphasis except where RDM's tone is critical to the interpretation of a statement (e.g. sarcasm).

===Links===
Where RDM mentions a BSG episode or character, link to our own article. Where he mentions a television show or actor which we do not have (or need) our own article for, offer a link to the corresponding page on IMDB. If another resource such as Wikipedia or Memory Alpha has more comprehensive information, you may link there at your discretion. To avoid overlinking, only link once per act break.

===Corrections===
Except for simple spelling errors, do not offer a "correction" without first having listened to the relevant portion of the recording. Always leave a comment on the talk page explaining your change.

===Application===
[http://nch.com.au/scribe/index.html Express Scribe] is a piece of free software (they give it away in the hopes that you buy the tie-in products) that allows you to playback the podcasts with hotkey controls (so you can edit in the ''Battlestar Wiki'' window but still pause/rewind/play), as well as allowing for variable speed playback (so you can transcribe at a slower rate). Express Scribe also remembers where you left off when you open it, allowing you to resume work at the same spot.

==Checkins==
When you begin work on a transcription, place your name beside the segment you are working on. When you've completed and uploaded it, mark your name next to "Transcribed". Afterwards, it would be helpful for a second user to verify the transcription.
=== Transcription In Progress ===
====Season 1 podcasts====
*[[Podcast:The Hand of God|The Hand of God]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/110/bsg_ep110_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:strangefreeworld|strangefreeworld]] 17:12, 19 May 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 06:31, 22 May 2006 (CDT).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/110/bsg_ep110_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:strangefreeworld|strangefreeworld]] 21:21 24 May 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 07:33, 25 May 2006 (CDT).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/110/bsg_ep110_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:strangefreeworld|strangefreeworld]] 19:10 27 May 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 10:52, 30 May 2006 (CDT).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/110/bsg_ep110_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:strangefreeworld|strangefreeworld]] 19:22 27 May 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 11:20, 30 May 2006 (CDT).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/110/bsg_ep110_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: [[User:strangefreeworld|strangefreeworld]] 8:24 10 June 2006 (EST). Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Colonial Day|Colonial Day]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/111/bsg_ep111_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Misco|Misco]] 11:02, 15 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:25, 16 March 2006 (CST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/111/bsg_ep111_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/111/bsg_ep111_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/111/bsg_ep111_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/111/bsg_ep111_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II|Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/113/bsg_ep113_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/113/bsg_ep113_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/113/bsg_ep113_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/113/bsg_ep113_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/113/bsg_ep113_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)

====Season 2 podcasts====
*[[Podcast:Scattered|Scattered]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/201/bsg_ep201_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Huh?|Huh?]] 11:15, 23 May 2006 (CDT). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:14, 23 May 2006 (CDT).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/201/bsg_ep201_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/201/bsg_ep201_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/201/bsg_ep201_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/201/bsg_ep201_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Valley of Darkness|Valley of Darkness]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/202/bsg_ep202_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/202/bsg_ep202_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/202/bsg_ep202_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/202/bsg_ep202_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/202/bsg_ep202_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Resistance|Resistance]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/204/bsg_ep204_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/204/bsg_ep204_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/204/bsg_ep204_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/204/bsg_ep204_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/204/bsg_ep204_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:The Farm|The Farm]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/205/bsg_ep205_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/205/bsg_ep205_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/205/bsg_ep205_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/205/bsg_ep205_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/205/bsg_ep205_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Home, Part I|Home, Part I]] (with David Eick)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/206/bsg_ep206_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/206/bsg_ep206_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/206/bsg_ep206_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/206/bsg_ep206_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/206/bsg_ep206_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Home, Part II|Home, Part II]] (with David Eick)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/207/bsg_ep207_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/207/bsg_ep207_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/207/bsg_ep207_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/207/bsg_ep207_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/207/bsg_ep207_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Final Cut|Final Cut]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/208/bsg_ep208_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/208/bsg_ep208_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/208/bsg_ep208_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/208/bsg_ep208_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/208/bsg_ep208_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Resurrection Ship, Part II|Resurrection Ship, Part II]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/212/bsg_ep212_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/212/bsg_ep212_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/212/bsg_ep212_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/212/bsg_ep212_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/212/bsg_ep212_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Black Market|Black Market]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/214/bsg_ep214_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/214/bsg_ep214_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/214/bsg_ep214_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/214/bsg_ep214_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/214/bsg_ep214_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Scar|Scar]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/215/bsg_ep215_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/215/bsg_ep215_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/215/bsg_ep215_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/215/bsg_ep215_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/215/bsg_ep215_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II|Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/220/bsg_ep220_1of7.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 18:17, 11 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 14:00, 13 March 2006 (CST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/220/bsg_ep220_2of7.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 22:32, 14 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:11, 16 March 2006 (CST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/220/bsg_ep220_3of7.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 17:32, 19 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:21, 20 March 2006 (CST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/220/bsg_ep220_4of7.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 17:34, 8 April 2006 (CDT). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 11:37, 10 April 2006 (CDT).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/220/bsg_ep220_5of7.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/220/bsg_ep220_6of7.mp3 Act 5] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/220/bsg_ep220_7of7.mp3 Act 6] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
=== Verification Required ===
====Season 2 podcasts====
*[[Podcast:Pegasus|Pegasus]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/210/bsg_ep210_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Ricimer|Ricimer]] 22:25, 14 December 2005 (EST). Verified: [[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 05:22, 15 December 2005 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/210/bsg_ep210_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 11:38, 21 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 21:58, 22 March 2006 (CST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/210/bsg_ep210_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 14:23, 30 March 2006 (CST). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/210/bsg_ep210_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:23, 11 April 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/210/bsg_ep210_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:35, 17 April 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Sacrifice|Sacrifice]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/216/bsg_ep216_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:14, 18 May 2006 (CDT). Verified: [[User:strangefreeworld|strangefreeworld]] 22:30, 27 May 2006 (EDT).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/216/bsg_ep216_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 12:13, 24 May 2006 (CDT). Verified: [[User:strangefreeworld|strangefreeworld]] 16:11, 28 May 2006 (EDT).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/216/bsg_ep216_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:19, 5 June 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/216/bsg_ep216_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 11:25, 6 June 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/216/bsg_ep216_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:45, 8 June 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:The Captain's Hand|The Captain's Hand]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/217/bsg_ep217_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:28, 2 May 2006 (CDT). Verified: [[User:strangefreeworld|strangefreeworld]] 21:10, 5 June 2006 (EDT).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/217/bsg_ep217_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 15:39, 3 May 2006 (CDT). Verified: [[User:strangefreeworld|strangefreeworld]] 21:20, 5 June 2006 (EDT).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/217/bsg_ep217_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 11:59, 5 May 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/217/bsg_ep217_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 14:00, 8 May 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/217/bsg_ep217_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 15:32, 9 May 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I|Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/219/bsg_ep219_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 08:30, 19 April 2006 (CDT). Verified: [[User:Shane|Shane]] ([[User_Talk:Shane|T]] - [[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]]) 11:30, 8 May 2006 (CDT).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/219/bsg_ep219_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 16:21, 19 April 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/219/bsg_ep219_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 11:20, 20 April 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/219/bsg_ep219_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 14:20, 21 April 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/219/bsg_ep219_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 10:31, 24 April 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)

=== Transcription Complete ===
====Season 1 podcasts====
*[[Podcast:Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down|Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]
*[[Podcast:Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I|Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]
====Season 2 podcasts====
*[[Podcast:Flight of the Phoenix|Flight of the Phoenix]]
*[[Podcast:Resurrection Ship, Part I|Resurrection Ship, Part I]]
*[[Podcast:Epiphanies|Epiphanies]]
*[[Podcast:Downloaded|Downloaded]]

==Disputes==
Members of Battlestar Wiki with experience in acoustic phonetics are listed below. They may be able to help with pronunciation issues.

*[[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]]

[[Category: Podcasts]]

Podcast:The Hand of God

2006-06-10T12:20:58Z

Strangefreeworld:

{{podcast|author=Carl Angoli|emailAuthor2=|suffix=|additionalCopyright=}}

==[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/110/bsg_ep110_1of5.mp3 Teaser]==

Hello and welcome to the podcast of commentary on episode 10, [[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]], on [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Battlestar Galactica]]. I'm [[Ronald D. Moore]] and I'll be your skipper and guide here for the next five days and four enchanting nights as we talk about The Hand of God.

This particular episode is one that remains virtually the same from the story outline onward. [[David Eick]], the-my partner and the other executive producer on this show, often refer to this episode as 'The Big Mac' and 'The Big Mac' is what we tended to call it around the offices. 'The Big Mac' because it's sort of fast food - its like here's the guilty pleasure, let's go out and blow a lot of stuff up, let's have some fun, let's do a war story, let's sort of get back to the roots of what the show is about, which essentially is a combat series about an aircraft carrier in space and fighting its foes.

Part of the concept of this series overall was that we knew going in that we would not be able to - nor did we really want to - do a battle episode every single week. We knew right away that was not going to be economically viable for us - we simply couldn't have enough money to produce that week in/week out - with [[Viper (RDM)|Vipers]] continually engaging the [[Cylon_Raider|Cylon raiders]] and etc., in a never-ending battle. And also, creatively, I never really wanted that to be the show. I always saw the show, as I've said many times before, as a drama first and an action-adventure series or science fiction series a distant second. So I always wanted to make the characters front and center. Which is in part one of the reasons why [[Laura Roslin]] was invented in the first place as long as we're- she's on the screen here.

The role of the President, as I have probably also mentioned before, I always thought was vital to the life of this series as opposed to the original series because I was always interested in playing a civilian versus military dynamic - the tension between those two and I thought also just given the sort of more realistic approach to the genre that we were going to take I knew that the President was going to have to have a role -a strong role - and that the political leadership of the survi- the remnants of humanity and the survivors of our [[The Fleet (RDM)|rag-tag fleet]] was going to be a very important story and I wanted to play it and that it would have to be this way that you would have to have someone in charge of the government - we couldn't just have [[William Adama|Adama]] week in and week out making these decisions for all these civilians.

This particular scene, with - obviously Laura's having hallucinations about snakes, which dovetails into our backstory and running subplot about her cancer and her hallucinations which are brought on by the [[Chamalla|drug that she's taking]]. This is also one of our press conference scenes - which to me was a way of sort of reinforcing the notion that ''[[Colonial One]]'' is our analog to [[Wikipedia:Air Force One|Air Force One]] and that you sort of needed something larger than the [[Wikipedia:Oval Office|Oval Office]] to sort of convey the White House as it were - I mean, we have sort of her office aboard ''Colonial One'' that we will see in a moment (or maybe we won't) and that was never really enough to convey sort of the power and the importance of the Presidency, so we came up with this idea of using the press conference because it's essentially such a familiar fixture in our day-to-day politics in the United States - the press conference, the press corps asking questions, the President standing behind the podium - it's such a familiar - the iconogra - the iconography of that is so familiar that it sort of reinforces this idea that she is the President over and over again.

To get back to the plot here for a second - [[Crashdown]] and [[Number Eight|Sharon]] are out hunting for [[Tylium]] fuel. Tylium fuel is lifted directly from the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|original Battlestar Galactica series]]. Unlike [[Memoryalpha:Star Trek: The Next Generation|Star Trek]] and other futuristic sort of space operas, which sort of posit in Star Trek's case the [[Memoryalpha:USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D)|''Enterprise'']] runs on matter/antimatter engines and there are books and reams of material and technical data that you can find that tell you exactly how the Enterprise engines work but essentially it's like this - the collision of matter and antimatter creates such an enormous release of energy that it drives the ''Enterprise'' forward.

The original Battlestar Galactica simply said that they had fuel. It was something called tylium fuel. And you had to find it, you had to refine it, and you had to put it in your gas tank to go. I liked that idea; I thought it was - it fit well within the sort of the retro-technology point of view that I was taking in this version of the series. So I kept it as opposed to simply giving the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Colonials]] and the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]] some vers - some variant of nuclear energy or again matter/antimatter or some out there sounding sort of space notions of what would drive these ships. Fuel is a good thing. I think it's a limitation; it's something that you can - you can run out of periodically, your supplies can be threatened, it gives you a need to go do things, ships have to be refueled; it's just sort of an interesting bit of texture in the series and it's sort of another way we tend to depart from what sort of has become the contemporary accepted conventions of science fiction. I think I've spoken about this sequence in previous podcasts but once again this is our upcoming shots of tonight's episode which is really an homage to [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072564/ Space: 1999]. And I will save the rest of my comments back to the show to the other side of the main title.

==[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/110/bsg_ep110_2of5.mp3 Act 1]==

Act 1, "[[The Hand of God (RDM)|Hand of God]]". "Hand of God", as I said at the outset, is virtually the same episode that we set out to tell at the very beginning. Which is somewhat of a rarity, and also something that is nice when it does happen.

This particular episode was written by [[David Weddle]] and [[Bradley Thompson]], a team of writers that I worked with on ''[[MemoryAlpha:Star Trek: Deep Space Nine|Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'' during its last couple of years and two of the first people that I thought about bringing aboard [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Battlestar Galactica]] because I knew that their sensibility would match up quite well with what I wanted to do in the series. Bradley in particular has a vast (laughing) and interesting knowledge of military lore and and technical jargon and tactics and sort of shares the - his -shares my interest as an amateur historian in military issues and I knew he would be a great addition.

His partner, David Weddle, is very different than Bradley in many many ways, David's a writer for the - a sometimes writer for the L.A. Times, he has also written a fine, fine biography of [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001603/ Sam Peckinpah] which I recommend to all my listeners, called [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0571178847/103-0287300-9555011?n=283155 ''If They Move, Kill Em''], and he's appeared in a couple of documentaries about Peckinpah and is a movie - is somewhat of a movie historian himself. In any case, they came up with this story in response to the request of [[David Eick]] and I to come up with 'The Big Mac'; we need a combat show.

And as I think I started to say, the idea of combat in the series from the get-go, when I pitched it to the network originally, I was very clear that we not going to be fighting the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]] continuously. We would probably encounter and have combat episodes every third or fourth episode roughly. Both for budgetary reasons and creative reasons. The creative reason was - I did not see how you ran into the Cylons '''every week''' and defeated them every week - which you kind of have to do in order to just keep the series moving forward - and still maintain the Cylons as this sort of frightening, unstoppable foe. This was a problem that I had run into in some ways before at the Star Trek franchise where there was an enemy known as the [[MemoryAlpha:Borg|Borg]], which was this cybernetic sort of half human or half organic and half synthetic creatures that assimilated -- cultures and they were essentially set up as the perfect unstoppable force that you could not reason with you could not talk to and you could not defeat and they would just keep coming. Well, the problem was they were so cool you kept going back to them and time after time the Enterprise would find a way to defeat them. So, eventually, the Borg sort of become somewhat toothless; they just sort of lose the scare factor because you beat them every week. I didn't want us to fall into the same trap here, so right from the get-go I made it very clear we were only going to do combat in small bursts, we were going to try to always keep it scary, our losses would be real, we were never going to really be cute about how we beat the Cylons, we were never going to really be pulling something out at the last minute - some virus inserted into their computers or anything like that. We would play it as real as we can given the parameters of dramatic television, of course.

This scene between [[Elosha]] and [[Laura Roslin|Laura]] is moving Laura Roslin along a path that sort of ties into the larger Battlestar Galactica mythos. Just as [[Tylium]] was something that was found in the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|original series]], so was this idea that there was a larger mythos to Galactica. The original Galactica series began with this short prologue and the main title sequence voiced by [[Patrick Macnee]] which began 'There are those who believe that life here began out there' and he proceeded to talk about how that some people believe that the pyramids and the Mayan civilizations and other ruins of past civilizations on earth were actually built or aided in some ways by ancient astronauts. This was an idea that was very current in the 1970s - ''[[Wikipedia:Chariots of the Gods|Chariots of the Gods]]'' was a best-seller - In Search of, [http://imdb.com/name/nm0000559/ Leonard Nimoy] explored the issue many times. So the idea that there were past visitors to [[Earth]] who were either human beings from some other part of the galaxy or were true aliens who came down and helped us - or influenced our development in some way shape or form - this is something that was built into the original series.

As I approached Galactica, the new version, I decided pretty early on that I wanted to keep that part of the mythos, I didn't want to play it too heavily up front in the mini-series or the first couple of episodes, because I felt it was more important to establish the characters, sink into the world, set up kind of a storytelling that we were doing, and really hook the audience into the show before we sort of start to introduce this more grandiose, mythological concepts. But it was very important so -- at this point in the series, in the latter episodes of the first season, you'll start to see more and more pieces of Laura, starting to realize there are connections - not just a connection between themselves and what they believe is the possibly mythical planet of Earth, but also that there is a larger story that was perhaps being told. There is a larger, more eternal tale that all of them are wrapped up in.

[[Leoben Conoy|Leoben]], the Cylon had referred to this with [[Kara Thrace|Kara]] in the episode ''[[Flesh and Bone]]'', there is a quote of the scripture that is used time and again called: 'All of this has happened before and all of this has happened again'. Which is a phrase that I have always been in love with because, if memory serves me correct - and I haven't actually pulled out the movie and checked this - but I believe it is the opening words of the Disney animated version of [[Wikipedia:Peter Pan|Peter Pan]] which I love the connection to and I thought it was just an elegant phrase; there's something really kinda nice about that. I mean, Peter Pan, and all that sorta symbolism about fantasy and reality and growing up sort of those sort of notions and I love that that's sort of part of their mythos and their scriptural belief that all of this has happened before and all of this has happened again. Which I think is marvelous.

Anyway, enough with the mythos, back to the '''hard core action''' of the show. This is the Big Board, as we called it. This came out of a creative - again a creative and budgetary problem, as so many sort of things in the show do. They sort of have both parents of budget and creative. How do you illustrate and dramatize to the audience a complicated military plan in space? I'd gone round these -round and round these sorts of ideas many times before - again, primarily at Star Trek, both NextGen and Deep Space 9 where occasionally we would do battles and we would have tactical plans that had to be elaborated to the audience and sort of ideas that had to be conveyed in somewhat succinct terms. And the conundrum you always find is that you never quite have enough money to just do it all in exterior space shots - and show all the movement of all the ships and set up all the geography correctly and see them going from A to B and this ship is over here and that base is there and we're trying to get over here. And it's confusing - even if you did have the money, it's all the ships against black, I mean, really unless you're like in the orbit of a planet or something, the backdrop in every single shot is the same starry blackness. And it's very hard to convey a sense of geography - that is, where ships are in relationship to one another, particularly when they're moving. So, you have that problem. Also, the other problem is that if you go with the more obvious answer to that, it's to simply do it all on a computer screen - to hand it over to the art department and your computer graphics people and visual effects and okay 'show me on a map, on some kind of flat 2-D surface that I can do a close-up insert shot of where the [[Galactica (RDM)|''Galactica'']] is, where the [[Viper]]s are, where the station is, where the [[Cylon Raider|Cylon raiders]] are, show me how the plan's supposed to be, move all the dots from here to there, give me a red line between the Vipers and the ''Galatica'' that's moving' - you get into these long detailed technical discussions with various skilled artists who give you everything that you ask for. The problem is, when you get those on-screen schematic graphics, and you put them in your show, nine times out of ten, they don't make sense. Real graphics, if you look at real, usable, functional graphics as they would be in say an [[Wikipedia:Aegis combat system|Aegis cruiser]] in the United States Navy trying to track multiple aircraft and ships and missiles and what have you in the Persian Gulf, say, it is a confusing jumble of symbols and iconography and notations and colors that makes perfect sense to the people who use it. And it looks really cool, but it doesn't tell you the story quickly and easily. And the trick in these kind of shows is to tell the story - you want to tell the audience what the plan is. You're not trying to sort of wow them with how technical you are and how close you're emulating sort of the technical reality of the show. You're trying to simply get across an easy story idea. The Cylons are there, we're coming from here, we're going to go over there, we're doing this other thing. So then you -- what ends up happening if you go down the computer graphics road is that you end up simplifying and simplifying and simplifying the graphic until it looks like something out of Fischer-Price where the ''Enterprise'' say is a bright yellow dot that's labeled ''Enterprise'' and moves in a very precise, straight way to some other dot that says 'Klingon Ship' and it's moving in a very easy to understand way and suddenly all of the interesting tactical movements are wiped away and you sort of fall in the cracks - you never quite have a way to convey a complicated battle in anything remotely resembling a satisfying manner. Which is why the most successful space battles are the kind of the simplest ones in space - generally. The ''Enterprise'' is being attacked by the ''Reliant'' in ''[[MemoryAlpha: Star Trek II:The Wrath of Kahn|Star Trek 2]]'' is essentially two ships going at each other. I'll be back.

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Two ships going at each other - I'll come back to the I'm sure intriguing discussion of graphics and tactics in a moment. This scene is one of my favorites in the show and one of my favorites in the series. I love it for several reasons - there's the actors involved, who I adore, there's the material of it, and there's the continuity of it. The continuity element was something that is very important to me in the series; that is to maintain a sense of reality from show to show to say that events that happen in one show impact things that happen in the other show that we don't essentially push the reset button at the end of the episode and everybody's back exactly the way they were. On ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'', we don't have a magical sickbay which sort of wipes away all your wounds and makes everything - makes your body just like it was at the beginning of the show. People have -- people suffer, people go through surgery, people have to go through rehab, like [[Kara Thrace|Starbuck]] does. And that the notion that Starbuck would sustain such a terrible knee injury that she - that actually, in her backstory, she had injured it once already - I don't know if we've ever said this in the series yet, but part of Starbuck's backstory is that she was a [[pyramid (RDM)|pyramid]] player - which is a physical game - again an homage to the original - it came to sort of a racketball/handball/basketball type game we haven't seen yet. She wanted to be a pyramid player, she blew out her knee, was not then - bascially could not be scouted by the pros, her career was over or so she thought, and so she decided to become a [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] pilot. Sorry to back up - she was in the Academy - she had joined the Colonial Fleet Academy on some kind of athletic scholarship primarily to play pyramid and she saw it as a means to an ends when she was there she blew out her knee and had to find other employment and when she got in the cockpit or flew for the first time she realized she had found her true calling. In any case, someone with that kind of backstory who suffers another injury shouldn't just get up and walk away from it and I wanted to play out the ramifications and the impacts of that over the course of many episodes, and then the great thing was in this episode it gave us a chance to make her stay '''behind''' - make our best pilot stay behind when we have the big 'Big Mac' mission to go on.

Which gives us this lovely scene between Starbuck and [[Lee Adama|Apollo]] where Starbuck calls her on the fact that she doesn't think he's up to the mission. Which I thought was really interesting; it wasn't just sort of the easy surface 'Attaboy, you can do it without me' and Lee saying 'Oh, come on, I'm not up to you and I wish you were with us' and each of them sort of golly-geeing the other one and '''holding their fears deep inside''' which is sort of the standard way you do these scenes. I '''like''' the fact that they're at each other again, that she really doesn't think he's up to it. That's what comes through. And that he's pissed about it, and he doesn't like it, he thinks he is up to it. Or at least wants a chance to prove it. I like the conflict of the two characters more than I like the sort of false and easy going comraderie that is so often the case in these shows.

[[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]] occupied [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]] - Origin- the only big change to happen in this show, really, and its development, really - originally this show was going - was slated to be episode 8 -excuse me, it was slated to be episode 9 - and it became episode 10. At the last minute I decided to split the two episodes in production order because I realized that the end of Flesh and Bone - where [[Leoben Conoy|Leoben]] whispers into [[Laura Roslin|Laura Roslin's]] ear that (whispers) '[[William Adama|Adama]] is a Cylon' - was the perfect way to springboard us into the episode that was all about paranoia and all about who's a Cylon and could Adama be a Cylon? Which became "[[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]". So at the last minute, I pulled a fast one and sent everybody scrambling to sort of switch the order so that it could be episode ten, and that Tigh Me Up could be episode 9. The only thing that then had to change substantially in the two episodes was this Cylon occupied Caprica story. These were the scenes that were originally targeted to be in "Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down" and then the scenes that you saw in "Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down" - the scenes of them running through the sewers and [[Number Five|Doral]] and [[Number Six|Six]] walking down into the vast underground chamber - all those little pieces were originally going to be in "[[The Hand of God (RDM)|Hand of God]]", because would've been in episode 9. And these sequences would have all been in episode 10.

This - in this story, this is maybe the first hint '''that maybe something is up with Sharon''', in case you haven't been paying attention. [[Karl Agathon|Helo]] doesn't see it because hey, he wasn't looking at the television monitor like you were. And this story is again is developing slowly over time, we've taken our time with it all season long. I think it's been a bit of a challenge to the traditional audience because they're very used to these episodes being -particularly science fiction in particular as being very standalone, very episodic, you don't have to see last week in order to understand this week. And I've been very pleased so far with the response of the audience and ratings - that the audience is willing to be patient, they are willing to invest themselves in a sci-fi show that asks its audience to remember things that happened, or if they missed last week's episode to at least take the leap of faith and get into it and not worry about the fact that they may have missed something.

This scene is an interesting scene between Adama and Lee. It's been interesting to sort of watch the evolution of their father/son dynamic since the [[miniseries]] where it began -for those of you have seen the miniseries - and I'm sure all of you have - in the original miniseries, Lee has a huge chip on his shoulder vis-a-vis his father. His father has tremendous feelings of guilt and anger of his own - both, both relating to -- both of their feelings relating to the death of Adama's other son, [[Zak Adama|Zak]]. And it took us a while to sort of move the relationship past that - in many ways, the death of Zak and the hard feelings between father and son over that really colored and defined their relationship for quite some time. What's good about this is that it's really a separate idea; it's really about Adama's belief or non-belief in his son -- and it's -- it's again, it's Lee realizing what the people around him think of him, which I think is an interesting way of going at this - that here's this handsome, heroic lead pilot character in the drama, who starts to realize that the people around him - his own father, his best friend - don't really think he's up to snuff, that his dad doesn't - thinks that he might not come back and gives him a lucky charm (laugh) to guide him back and to get him to kind of spunk him up and that Starbuck has to stand in rooms and sort of walk him through all the tactics. And it kinda - I think it's a weight that the character carries with him. And it's the determination - (right here) it's the determination in Lee that I think is most telling. He's tenacious, he is not somebody who gives up easily and I think that in probably throughout his life I think many people have underestimated Lee Adama.

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And it's raining on the hangar deck - '''no''' it's not, we're back on [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]]-occupied [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]]. One of the things that became troublesome, of course, was the worry that the audience was going to get confused about where was [[Number Eight|Sharon]]? Which is Sharon? Why is Sharon on the planet? Why is she also on the [[Galactica type battlestar|battlestar]]? There were countless, countless, countless discussions of this idea - how to differentiate the two and the audience confusion factor was always something that was like uppermost in a lot of executive's minds. And, fortunately we overcame that and I think we split the difference and we were able to sort of compromise in a lot of areas that it was ok to compromise in to spell out the difference. This comes up just because she's beaten and sort of had some scarring going on which started to help differenterate-differentiate the two visually to the audience, which is always the sort of the fundamental idea. It's like OK at a glance you want to know this is not the same Sharon that you're watching back on the [[Galactica (RDM)|''Galactica'']]. Even if you don't know all the reasons why. And, I guess they're going to run and get on a horse and fly away. No they're not.

So here we go with the plan. I like that we didn't tell you everything that goes on in the tactical plan, that there are hidden secrets within it, some things that are hidden even from [[Laura Roslin|the President]], which I think dramatically is interesting because it gives the audience a sense of fun and a sense of excitement and a sense that something could change at any moment. It's a bit of a trick, I mean, it's a writer's device to sort of lead you down a certain path; we've essentially told you what the plan was in very general terms, without spelling too much of it out, and now here you are, you're going to watch it unfold and you're expecting the Cylons to do something unexpected, you're expecting that the Cylons will pull something at the last minute, that they will act in a way that we don't anticipate, and you're--you the audience, are anticipating that in turn, and you're kind of looking forward to it and seeing how it happens. Now, what we did on top of that in this episode was then to also to bury the card of what will ''Galactica'' - what piece of the ''Galactica'' plan has not been conveyed to you the audience that either anticipates this Cylon unexpected maneuver or outmaneuvers it at the last minute. All of this is very conceptual and I'm not even sure if it is even remotely interesting to most of you in the audience. But, in essence, it's a way of constructing these dramatic scenes in such a way (coughs) that just as you feel familiar with where it's going - and you know as an audience member that certain twists are on the horizon - you still can enjoy it because we still have some legitimate surprises to come out later.

All of this, these sequences, of course, are very influenced by classic action movies, classic World War II movies, real life documentaries of the carrier war in the Pacific, and later to some extent to the Korean and Vietnam war, and even in the carrier -- carrier combat and aircraft - aircraft something, a word that I can't - I'm reaching for but can't find - (laughs) in the way the aircraft are detailed and put into battle in the present day.

Back to the table itself - the Big Board. As I was saying earlier, once you've eliminated the idea of doing everything in space shots and also that computer graphics are not going to help you too much we came up with this idea of let's go back to what some of the great World War II movies used to do. Which was based on something very real - these big boards of pieces, ships and troops, and maneuvering tactical units - putting them on a very big map and having people move them around with sticks is something that really happened in mostly in World War II and in earlier eras as a way of sort of seeing it visually. As human beings, we're very visually oriented, we like to see where all the pieces are. And in several classic Second World War movies like ''[http://imdb.com/title/tt0054310/ Sink the Bismark!]'' or ''[http://imdb.com/title/tt0066473/ Tora! Tora! Tora!]'' or even much much less a movie called ''[http://imdb.com/title/tt0074899/ Midway]'' - about the [[Wikipedia:Battle of Midway|Battle of Midway]] - they used these large boards. With ships. Labeled them, carrier task groups and where they are in relation to the different islands. And the idea of using that in our show was unique - as far as I know. I don't remember anybody else having done this exactly like this. Or even remotely like this. And we all got really excited about it and at first our notion was to be very real. Again, always is the underlying drive in our series is to be as real as possible. And the initial pieces we were sort of going to put on this board were like the real ones which were very nondescript - they were just essentially little blocks, little pieces of paper, or construction paper or little blocks that just had very simple designators on them - you know, just sort of dry words and carrier group numbers and that sort of thing. And what we found is that it wasn't going to be visually interesting at all. It just wasn't going to conve- again, it was getting kind of boring visually to the audience, and hard to understand. And the whole point of doing this was not just to be realistic, but also to be entertaining and also to tell the story. So I believe it was [http://imdb.com/name/nm0399750/ Richard Hudolin], who is our production designer -- simply suggests why don't we use little models. And it's such a simple idea and at first I kind of resisted it cause I thought it was a little hokey. It was so great and I was so glad he did it and I'm glad that we went for it because it makes this entire sequence work.

==[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/110/bsg_ep110_5of5.mp3 Act 4]==

Anyway, using the models on the table makes it work in a very real way. You look down, you see the [[Raptor]], you know those are the Raptors. You see the [[Viper (RDM)|Vipers]] there's the Vipers. Here's the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]]. Here's [[Galactica]]. It's so much - this is so easy to convey this idea. There. What's going on? The Vipers are heading back to Galactica. It would have cost quite a bit of money to do it in space. That's a simple shot. Cylons flip over, head away from those transports. That's great but if I cut to another shot of Vipers doing the same thing somewhere else you might be confused as to the relative position they're in. But on the board, '''you get it'''. You get what's going on on the board.

Now coming up, of course, is another -- yet another little homage to the original Battlestar Galactica. Because there are many little homages to the [[Galactica (TOS)|original Battlestar Galactica]]. Contrary to the views of many of our detractors, who think that we spend our time dancing up and down on the '''grave''' of the original one. That we '''enjoy''' chances to put a '''stake through the heart''' of the old show. Actually, we're kinda -we're quite fond of the old show, we mean it no disrespect, and there are many fans of the original- in the visual effects department in particular - who delight in sprinkling our rag-tag fleet with models and ships from the original. And coming up is one of those original ships from the original Battlestar Galactica which was featured prominently virtually every week because it was one of their stock shots that they used over and over and '''over''' again- which -- not that we don't use stock shots over and over again but it was one of the more recognizable ships of their fleet. And there it is! I believe that was called the [[Colonial Movers]]. And it's hiding our Vipers. Which I think is such a cool gag - when the guys came up with this (helicopter noises) --this -- the -- I'm sorry, there's an aircraft going overhead - I am in my undisclosed location somewhere in the greater Los Angeles area - and they are looking for me constantly.

Anyway, this whole sequence is in large large measure has - is a salute to the efforts of everyone at Zoic and many other artists and artisans (unintelligible) who have aided in this episode in our visual effects department. And [http://imdb.com/name/nm0404690/ Gary Hutzel] - who is our Visual Effects Supervisor - who's just one of the key players on our team - and he - Gary -- the director and the writers worked very closely on all this. I - my rewrite - and I've said before that I do production rewrites (helicopter noise) - again the aircraft - the black helicopters are hunting me even as we speak -- I always do a rewrite and a pass through of scripts to varying degrees - this was the script I did the least of. I didn't do a huge rewrite on this episode -- it's really a salute to the writers and director and Gary Hutzel how well this all works out. This is all very complicated material, this is all expensive material, we had to save our pennies and hoard our visual effects budget for quite a while to make all this work. What's nice about this sort of show and these episodes are all these other Viper pilots, I think, because you need to put faces to these other pilots to care about them and you'll recognize [[Louanne Katraine|Kat]] is one of the faces you saw go by very briefly and Cat was one of the nuggets, one of the new pilots that [[Kara Thrace|Kara]] had trained way back in ''[[Act of Contrition]]''. Which again was -- is another nice little bit of continuity.

All of this -- all of this action is influenced very heavily by the way real pilots conduct tactical missions, coming in along the deck, how they respond and try to avoid and evade and sometimes not evade anti-aircraft fire. Certainly, these are all reminiscent of scenes we have all seen from shots of pilots over Baghdad in both Gulf Wars. We tried very hard to be as true to those tactics and those missions as we could. We couldn't do everything, there are certainly valid areas of criticism, I think, that a real pilot and a real military officers will bring to the series. And they do. And I think that's perfectly legitimate. We- as much as I want it to be a documentary-like series, it's not a documentary, it is a dramatic show and we try really hard to give it a '''sense''' of realness. It's a '''sense''' of realism that you want. You want to believe these things are really happening, even thought they're not. So we do strive and we have technical advisors and we strive every week to make these things feel like they're really happening. But in the end there are compromises and there are little things that don't quite work and I'll take the responsibility for all of that. A lot of -- there are things in this episode - some of the pilot jargon back and forth - some of the wireless transmissions between the pilots - that doesn't quite ring true, that the writers called me on. There are things I did in post-production just because I had to move the story forward and sometimes you make compromises on the fly because you don't have time to do anything else and later you go 'Oh, God, he really wouldn't have said that'. But, all that aside, I think this is in many ways this is a more successful and more exciting battle sequence than we had in the miniseries. I think it's visually interesting, I think the objectives and the tactics are more complicated than the miniseries. The miniseries battles were essentially 'There they are, they're coming at us, oh, let's try and get away'. This is go into a target, set up decoys, suppression fire on the anti-aircraft, and then we've got this. This is -- this is [[Lee Adama|Apollo]] doing the [[Wikipedia:Luke Skywalker|Luke Skywalker]] gag. I mean, this is -- we talked about it. This is an homage, in some ways, to ''[[Wikipedia:Star Wars|Star Wars]]''. There's no doubt about that. It's go down into the trench go down into something and fly your Viper and do something hangin' it out there over the edge. Because the whole char-- and it's in service of a character thing; it's not not so much the plot device of how to destroy the Cylon base -- it's really a character gag. We wanted Lee to do something crazy. Like Kara would do. That was the whole point. Apollo doing really a Starbuck move to prove to himself and everyone else that he's capable of doing these kinds of things.

What I did tell Gary Hutzel on this run through the tunnel was I said make it look as difficult as possible but don't make it look impossible. I don't want it to be like the sequence in ''[[Wikipedia:Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi|Return of the Jedi]]'' where the X-Wings, the ''[[Wikipedia:Millennium Falcon|Millennium Falcon]]'' go inside the battlestar -- the [[Wikipedia:Death Star|Death Star]] -- under construction. And you just don't believe for a second that they could really fly in there - the tolerances are so tight and they have to move so quickly and there's just no way - you just know that they'd smash into the wall. So in that sequence you just watch. The Viper is not moving at an impossible speed, it's not moving in an impossible way and the tunnel is not so narrow that he could not have piloted through it. Given that it is a spaceship and not an aircraft -- so the fact that he could stop and do that -- see, that's all great stuff. This breaks this sort of language that you usually have in space opera, that ships move like aircraft or like naval vessels. I wanted the spaceships to move like spaceships which means they can stop, they can turn around, they can flip end over end, they can -- they are not bound by the same aerodynamic limitations that real aircraft are. They are spaceships, they are bounded by the laws of physics. So, Gary and Zoic worked very hard under that dictum and we often sent shots back because we don't want them to look like planes in air we want them to look like spaceships in space. And for the most part I think we're quite successful at that. And I think what's interesting is that many times you see the spaceships moving like a fighter --like a traditional fighter -- and then it does something like you just saw where it stops, spins, turns, and goes the other direction. And it catches you completely off guard and it reminds you 'Oh, yeah these are spaceships'.

These kinds of scenes are interesting to me because these are the kinds of scenes I'm usually afraid of, frankly, in scripts. I'm usually afraid of the moment when you script the- 'and the crew gives out a cheer and everybody breaks into applause' -- because my experience is usually those moments fall flat and that usually it feels forced and phony and you don't really buy it. What's interesting in our show is whenever we've asked for one of those moments they have felt genuine and they have felt - I felt - an emotional release. And like this little bit here, this lovely bit between [[Laura Roslin|Laura]] and Starbuck, and she hugs her. I just love that. It moves me. It makes me feel these are real people. All these people feel like real -- all these characters feel like real people to me. And I think that's the key, is what we have tried so hard in the show is to convey a sense of realism so that you can accept these characters as flesh and blood human beings. And once you cross that threshold, then you share their victories and you cry in their defeats and this is one of those moments where you just believe it - you believe given this whole episode you've seen that they would need a release that they would actually celebrate. And that they would be happy and it doesn't just feel like forced frivolity and it feels like genuine release of emotion, which I think is they key.

What's also interesting about this little bit is that - the cigar. Y'know what, I don't care what the anti-smoking folks, the PC tobacco folks wanna say - I like it, we're gonna keep doing it. People smoke, they're human beings, it's their choice, let 'em. And I think it's a symbol -- in areas -- tok -- lighting up the stogie -- like many, many, many fighter pilots have beforehand and many will after in the moment of celebration and I think that's great.

And there's the lighter back to [[William Adama|Dad]].

It's a honest episode. It's a Big Mac, but sometimes Big Macs are really good and they taste really good. You just have to be sure that you make them well. And I think we made this one pretty well.

Now the coda to this, this little bit with [[Gaius Baltar|Baltar]] and [[Number Six|Six]] which we haven't talked on at all, also continues his continuity, his movement through the show in a philosophical and religious sense to the point where he's starting to wonder what's going on. We've made all these connections and him as a rational, secular scientist has to look around him and realize that maybe things are not what they seem, but much, as much as he wants to deny the existence of [[God]], and certainly the Cylon God, things do tend to work the way Six tells him. God's hand does seem to be in play in many ways in this episode. And in the series. But what does that say? What does that say to Gaius Baltar, the skeptic and secularist, what does it say to him. How does he start to put this all together? In his mind, as evidence piles atop evidence, that perhaps there is a God and perhaps it is her God, perhaps he has been visited by not just a chip in his head, or by a subconscious psychotic break, but perhaps God is speaking to him in some bizarre way. And where will that take him? Where will it take him by the end of the series is a fascinating question and one that myself and the other writers are enjoying exploring at this very moment.

I think, --yeah, we're getting ready for the close of the episode, and we are moving to one of my favorite shots in the series, one of my favorite moments in character bits, and then there is this shot, which I believe is actually [[David Eick|David Eick's]] idea. David spends far more time on the actual set than I do. He's in Canada far more than I am, I sort of bounce back and forth between the L.A. writers office and post-production is down here and the Vancouver shooting stages. And David is up there much more. He's directly - sitting next to the director many times. And this upcoming shot where we end the episode, I believe, was David's idea. And as soon as I saw it, I fell on the floor laughing and just loving it. This. (laughs) You gotta love that.

Well, thank you ladies and gentlemen, and I will be talking to you again on ''[[Colonial Day]]''.

Podcast:The Hand of God

2006-06-10T12:17:26Z

Strangefreeworld:

{{podcast|author=Carl Angoli|emailAuthor2=|suffix=|additionalCopyright=}}

==[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/110/bsg_ep110_1of5.mp3 Teaser]==

Hello and welcome to the podcast of commentary on episode 10, [[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]], on [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Battlestar Galactica]]. I'm [[Ronald D. Moore]] and I'll be your skipper and guide here for the next five days and four enchanting nights as we talk about The Hand of God.

This particular episode is one that remains virtually the same from the story outline onward. [[David Eick]], the-my partner and the other executive producer on this show, often refer to this episode as 'The Big Mac' and 'The Big Mac' is what we tended to call it around the offices. 'The Big Mac' because it's sort of fast food - its like here's the guilty pleasure, let's go out and blow a lot of stuff up, let's have some fun, let's do a war story, let's sort of get back to the roots of what the show is about, which essentially is a combat series about an aircraft carrier in space and fighting its foes.

Part of the concept of this series overall was that we knew going in that we would not be able to - nor did we really want to - do a battle episode every single week. We knew right away that was not going to be economically viable for us - we simply couldn't have enough money to produce that week in/week out - with [[Viper (RDM)|Vipers]] continually engaging the [[Cylon_Raider|Cylon raiders]] and etc., in a never-ending battle. And also, creatively, I never really wanted that to be the show. I always saw the show, as I've said many times before, as a drama first and an action-adventure series or science fiction series a distant second. So I always wanted to make the characters front and center. Which is in part one of the reasons why [[Laura Roslin]] was invented in the first place as long as we're- she's on the screen here.

The role of the President, as I have probably also mentioned before, I always thought was vital to the life of this series as opposed to the original series because I was always interested in playing a civilian versus military dynamic - the tension between those two and I thought also just given the sort of more realistic approach to the genre that we were going to take I knew that the President was going to have to have a role -a strong role - and that the political leadership of the survi- the remnants of humanity and the survivors of our [[The Fleet (RDM)|rag-tag fleet]] was going to be a very important story and I wanted to play it and that it would have to be this way that you would have to have someone in charge of the government - we couldn't just have [[William Adama|Adama]] week in and week out making these decisions for all these civilians.

This particular scene, with - obviously Laura's having hallucinations about snakes, which dovetails into our backstory and running subplot about her cancer and her hallucinations which are brought on by the [[Chamalla|drug that she's taking]]. This is also one of our press conference scenes - which to me was a way of sort of reinforcing the notion that ''[[Colonial One]]'' is our analog to [[Wikipedia:Air Force One|Air Force One]] and that you sort of needed something larger than the [[Wikipedia:Oval Office|Oval Office]] to sort of convey the White House as it were - I mean, we have sort of her office aboard ''Colonial One'' that we will see in a moment (or maybe we won't) and that was never really enough to convey sort of the power and the importance of the Presidency, so we came up with this idea of using the press conference because it's essentially such a familiar fixture in our day-to-day politics in the United States - the press conference, the press corps asking questions, the President standing behind the podium - it's such a familiar - the iconogra - the iconography of that is so familiar that it sort of reinforces this idea that she is the President over and over again.

To get back to the plot here for a second - [[Crashdown]] and [[Number Eight|Sharon]] are out hunting for [[Tylium]] fuel. Tylium fuel is lifted directly from the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|original Battlestar Galactica series]]. Unlike [[Memoryalpha:Star Trek: The Next Generation|Star Trek]] and other futuristic sort of space operas, which sort of posit in Star Trek's case the [[Memoryalpha:USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D)|''Enterprise'']] runs on matter/antimatter engines and there are books and reams of material and technical data that you can find that tell you exactly how the Enterprise engines work but essentially it's like this - the collision of matter and antimatter creates such an enormous release of energy that it drives the ''Enterprise'' forward.

The original Battlestar Galactica simply said that they had fuel. It was something called tylium fuel. And you had to find it, you had to refine it, and you had to put it in your gas tank to go. I liked that idea; I thought it was - it fit well within the sort of the retro-technology point of view that I was taking in this version of the series. So I kept it as opposed to simply giving the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Colonials]] and the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]] some vers - some variant of nuclear energy or again matter/antimatter or some out there sounding sort of space notions of what would drive these ships. Fuel is a good thing. I think it's a limitation; it's something that you can - you can run out of periodically, your supplies can be threatened, it gives you a need to go do things, ships have to be refueled; it's just sort of an interesting bit of texture in the series and it's sort of another way we tend to depart from what sort of has become the contemporary accepted conventions of science fiction. I think I've spoken about this sequence in previous podcasts but once again this is our upcoming shots of tonight's episode which is really an homage to [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072564/ Space: 1999]. And I will save the rest of my comments back to the show to the other side of the main title.

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Act 1, "[[The Hand of God (RDM)|Hand of God]]". "Hand of God", as I said at the outset, is virtually the same episode that we set out to tell at the very beginning. Which is somewhat of a rarity, and also something that is nice when it does happen.

This particular episode was written by [[David Weddle]] and [[Bradley Thompson]], a team of writers that I worked with on ''[[MemoryAlpha:Star Trek: Deep Space Nine|Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'' during its last couple of years and two of the first people that I thought about bringing aboard [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Battlestar Galactica]] because I knew that their sensibility would match up quite well with what I wanted to do in the series. Bradley in particular has a vast (laughing) and interesting knowledge of military lore and and technical jargon and tactics and sort of shares the - his -shares my interest as an amateur historian in military issues and I knew he would be a great addition.

His partner, David Weddle, is very different than Bradley in many many ways, David's a writer for the - a sometimes writer for the L.A. Times, he has also written a fine, fine biography of [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001603/ Sam Peckinpah] which I recommend to all my listeners, called [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0571178847/103-0287300-9555011?n=283155 ''If They Move, Kill Em''], and he's appeared in a couple of documentaries about Peckinpah and is a movie - is somewhat of a movie historian himself. In any case, they came up with this story in response to the request of [[David Eick]] and I to come up with 'The Big Mac'; we need a combat show.

And as I think I started to say, the idea of combat in the series from the get-go, when I pitched it to the network originally, I was very clear that we not going to be fighting the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]] continuously. We would probably encounter and have combat episodes every third or fourth episode roughly. Both for budgetary reasons and creative reasons. The creative reason was - I did not see how you ran into the Cylons '''every week''' and defeated them every week - which you kind of have to do in order to just keep the series moving forward - and still maintain the Cylons as this sort of frightening, unstoppable foe. This was a problem that I had run into in some ways before at the Star Trek franchise where there was an enemy known as the [[MemoryAlpha:Borg|Borg]], which was this cybernetic sort of half human or half organic and half synthetic creatures that assimilated -- cultures and they were essentially set up as the perfect unstoppable force that you could not reason with you could not talk to and you could not defeat and they would just keep coming. Well, the problem was they were so cool you kept going back to them and time after time the Enterprise would find a way to defeat them. So, eventually, the Borg sort of become somewhat toothless; they just sort of lose the scare factor because you beat them every week. I didn't want us to fall into the same trap here, so right from the get-go I made it very clear we were only going to do combat in small bursts, we were going to try to always keep it scary, our losses would be real, we were never going to really be cute about how we beat the Cylons, we were never going to really be pulling something out at the last minute - some virus inserted into their computers or anything like that. We would play it as real as we can given the parameters of dramatic television, of course.

This scene between [[Elosha]] and [[Laura Roslin|Laura]] is moving Laura Roslin along a path that sort of ties into the larger Battlestar Galactica mythos. Just as [[Tylium]] was something that was found in the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|original series]], so was this idea that there was a larger mythos to Galactica. The original Galactica series began with this short prologue and the main title sequence voiced by [[Patrick Macnee]] which began 'There are those who believe that life here began out there' and he proceeded to talk about how that some people believe that the pyramids and the Mayan civilizations and other ruins of past civilizations on earth were actually built or aided in some ways by ancient astronauts. This was an idea that was very current in the 1970s - ''[[Wikipedia:Chariots of the Gods|Chariots of the Gods]]'' was a best-seller - In Search of, [http://imdb.com/name/nm0000559/ Leonard Nimoy] explored the issue many times. So the idea that there were past visitors to [[Earth]] who were either human beings from some other part of the galaxy or were true aliens who came down and helped us - or influenced our development in some way shape or form - this is something that was built into the original series.

As I approached Galactica, the new version, I decided pretty early on that I wanted to keep that part of the mythos, I didn't want to play it too heavily up front in the mini-series or the first couple of episodes, because I felt it was more important to establish the characters, sink into the world, set up kind of a storytelling that we were doing, and really hook the audience into the show before we sort of start to introduce this more grandiose, mythological concepts. But it was very important so -- at this point in the series, in the latter episodes of the first season, you'll start to see more and more pieces of Laura, starting to realize there are connections - not just a connection between themselves and what they believe is the possibly mythical planet of Earth, but also that there is a larger story that was perhaps being told. There is a larger, more eternal tale that all of them are wrapped up in.

[[Leoben Conoy|Leoben]], the Cylon had referred to this with [[Kara Thrace|Kara]] in the episode ''[[Flesh and Bone]]'', there is a quote of the scripture that is used time and again called: 'All of this has happened before and all of this has happened again'. Which is a phrase that I have always been in love with because, if memory serves me correct - and I haven't actually pulled out the movie and checked this - but I believe it is the opening words of the Disney animated version of [[Wikipedia:Peter Pan|Peter Pan]] which I love the connection to and I thought it was just an elegant phrase; there's something really kinda nice about that. I mean, Peter Pan, and all that sorta symbolism about fantasy and reality and growing up sort of those sort of notions and I love that that's sort of part of their mythos and their scriptural belief that all of this has happened before and all of this has happened again. Which I think is marvelous.

Anyway, enough with the mythos, back to the '''hard core action''' of the show. This is the Big Board, as we called it. This came out of a creative - again a creative and budgetary problem, as so many sort of things in the show do. They sort of have both parents of budget and creative. How do you illustrate and dramatize to the audience a complicated military plan in space? I'd gone round these -round and round these sorts of ideas many times before - again, primarily at Star Trek, both NextGen and Deep Space 9 where occasionally we would do battles and we would have tactical plans that had to be elaborated to the audience and sort of ideas that had to be conveyed in somewhat succinct terms. And the conundrum you always find is that you never quite have enough money to just do it all in exterior space shots - and show all the movement of all the ships and set up all the geography correctly and see them going from A to B and this ship is over here and that base is there and we're trying to get over here. And it's confusing - even if you did have the money, it's all the ships against black, I mean, really unless you're like in the orbit of a planet or something, the backdrop in every single shot is the same starry blackness. And it's very hard to convey a sense of geography - that is, where ships are in relationship to one another, particularly when they're moving. So, you have that problem. Also, the other problem is that if you go with the more obvious answer to that, it's to simply do it all on a computer screen - to hand it over to the art department and your computer graphics people and visual effects and okay 'show me on a map, on some kind of flat 2-D surface that I can do a close-up insert shot of where the [[Galactica (RDM)|''Galactica'']] is, where the [[Viper]]s are, where the station is, where the [[Cylon Raider|Cylon raiders]] are, show me how the plan's supposed to be, move all the dots from here to there, give me a red line between the Vipers and the ''Galatica'' that's moving' - you get into these long detailed technical discussions with various skilled artists who give you everything that you ask for. The problem is, when you get those on-screen schematic graphics, and you put them in your show, nine times out of ten, they don't make sense. Real graphics, if you look at real, usable, functional graphics as they would be in say an [[Wikipedia:Aegis combat system|Aegis cruiser]] in the United States Navy trying to track multiple aircraft and ships and missiles and what have you in the Persian Gulf, say, it is a confusing jumble of symbols and iconography and notations and colors that makes perfect sense to the people who use it. And it looks really cool, but it doesn't tell you the story quickly and easily. And the trick in these kind of shows is to tell the story - you want to tell the audience what the plan is. You're not trying to sort of wow them with how technical you are and how close you're emulating sort of the technical reality of the show. You're trying to simply get across an easy story idea. The Cylons are there, we're coming from here, we're going to go over there, we're doing this other thing. So then you -- what ends up happening if you go down the computer graphics road is that you end up simplifying and simplifying and simplifying the graphic until it looks like something out of Fischer-Price where the ''Enterprise'' say is a bright yellow dot that's labeled ''Enterprise'' and moves in a very precise, straight way to some other dot that says 'Klingon Ship' and it's moving in a very easy to understand way and suddenly all of the interesting tactical movements are wiped away and you sort of fall in the cracks - you never quite have a way to convey a complicated battle in anything remotely resembling a satisfying manner. Which is why the most successful space battles are the kind of the simplest ones in space - generally. The ''Enterprise'' is being attacked by the ''Reliant'' in ''[[MemoryAlpha: Star Trek II:The Wrath of Kahn|Star Trek 2]]'' is essentially two ships going at each other. I'll be back.

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Two ships going at each other - I'll come back to the I'm sure intriguing discussion of graphics and tactics in a moment. This scene is one of my favorites in the show and one of my favorites in the series. I love it for several reasons - there's the actors involved, who I adore, there's the material of it, and there's the continuity of it. The continuity element was something that is very important to me in the series; that is to maintain a sense of reality from show to show to say that events that happen in one show impact things that happen in the other show that we don't essentially push the reset button at the end of the episode and everybody's back exactly the way they were. On ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'', we don't have a magical sickbay which sort of wipes away all your wounds and makes everything - makes your body just like it was at the beginning of the show. People have -- people suffer, people go through surgery, people have to go through rehab, like [[Kara Thrace|Starbuck]] does. And that the notion that Starbuck would sustain such a terrible knee injury that she - that actually, in her backstory, she had injured it once already - I don't know if we've ever said this in the series yet, but part of Starbuck's backstory is that she was a [[pyramid (RDM)|pyramid]] player - which is a physical game - again an homage to the original - it came to sort of a racketball/handball/basketball type game we haven't seen yet. She wanted to be a pyramid player, she blew out her knee, was not then - bascially could not be scouted by the pros, her career was over or so she thought, and so she decided to become a [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] pilot. Sorry to back up - she was in the Academy - she had joined the Colonial Fleet Academy on some kind of athletic scholarship primarily to play pyramid and she saw it as a means to an ends when she was there she blew out her knee and had to find other employment and when she got in the cockpit or flew for the first time she realized she had found her true calling. In any case, someone with that kind of backstory who suffers another injury shouldn't just get up and walk away from it and I wanted to play out the ramifications and the impacts of that over the course of many episodes, and then the great thing was in this episode it gave us a chance to make her stay '''behind''' - make our best pilot stay behind when we have the big 'Big Mac' mission to go on.

Which gives us this lovely scene between Starbuck and [[Lee Adama|Apollo]] where Starbuck calls her on the fact that she doesn't think he's up to the mission. Which I thought was really interesting; it wasn't just sort of the easy surface 'Attaboy, you can do it without me' and Lee saying 'Oh, come on, I'm not up to you and I wish you were with us' and each of them sort of golly-geeing the other one and '''holding their fears deep inside''' which is sort of the standard way you do these scenes. I '''like''' the fact that they're at each other again, that she really doesn't think he's up to it. That's what comes through. And that he's pissed about it, and he doesn't like it, he thinks he is up to it. Or at least wants a chance to prove it. I like the conflict of the two characters more than I like the sort of false and easy going comraderie that is so often the case in these shows.

[[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]] occupied [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]] - Origin- the only big change to happen in this show, really, and its development, really - originally this show was going - was slated to be episode 8 -excuse me, it was slated to be episode 9 - and it became episode 10. At the last minute I decided to split the two episodes in production order because I realized that the end of Flesh and Bone - where [[Leoben Conoy|Leoben]] whispers into [[Laura Roslin|Laura Roslin's]] ear that (whispers) '[[William Adama|Adama]] is a Cylon' - was the perfect way to springboard us into the episode that was all about paranoia and all about who's a Cylon and could Adama be a Cylon? Which became "[[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]". So at the last minute, I pulled a fast one and sent everybody scrambling to sort of switch the order so that it could be episode ten, and that Tigh Me Up could be episode 9. The only thing that then had to change substantially in the two episodes was this Cylon occupied Caprica story. These were the scenes that were originally targeted to be in "Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down" and then the scenes that you saw in "Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down" - the scenes of them running through the sewers and [[Number Five|Doral]] and [[Number Six|Six]] walking down into the vast underground chamber - all those little pieces were originally going to be in "[[The Hand of God (RDM)|Hand of God]]", because would've been in episode 9. And these sequences would have all been in episode 10.

This - in this story, this is maybe the first hint '''that maybe something is up with Sharon''', in case you haven't been paying attention. [[Karl Agathon|Helo]] doesn't see it because hey, he wasn't looking at the television monitor like you were. And this story is again is developing slowly over time, we've taken our time with it all season long. I think it's been a bit of a challenge to the traditional audience because they're very used to these episodes being -particularly science fiction in particular as being very standalone, very episodic, you don't have to see last week in order to understand this week. And I've been very pleased so far with the response of the audience and ratings - that the audience is willing to be patient, they are willing to invest themselves in a sci-fi show that asks its audience to remember things that happened, or if they missed last week's episode to at least take the leap of faith and get into it and not worry about the fact that they may have missed something.

This scene is an interesting scene between Adama and Lee. It's been interesting to sort of watch the evolution of their father/son dynamic since the [[miniseries]] where it began -for those of you have seen the miniseries - and I'm sure all of you have - in the original miniseries, Lee has a huge chip on his shoulder vis-a-vis his father. His father has tremendous feelings of guilt and anger of his own - both, both relating to -- both of their feelings relating to the death of Adama's other son, [[Zak Adama|Zak]]. And it took us a while to sort of move the relationship past that - in many ways, the death of Zak and the hard feelings between father and son over that really colored and defined their relationship for quite some time. What's good about this is that it's really a separate idea; it's really about Adama's belief or non-belief in his son -- and it's -- it's again, it's Lee realizing what the people around him think of him, which I think is an interesting way of going at this - that here's this handsome, heroic lead pilot character in the drama, who starts to realize that the people around him - his own father, his best friend - don't really think he's up to snuff, that his dad doesn't - thinks that he might not come back and gives him a lucky charm (laugh) to guide him back and to get him to kind of spunk him up and that Starbuck has to stand in rooms and sort of walk him through all the tactics. And it kinda - I think it's a weight that the character carries with him. And it's the determination - (right here) it's the determination in Lee that I think is most telling. He's tenacious, he is not somebody who gives up easily and I think that in probably throughout his life I think many people have underestimated Lee Adama.

==[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/110/bsg_ep110_4of5.mp3 Act 3]==

And it's raining on the hangar deck - '''no''' it's not, we're back on [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]]-occupied [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]]. One of the things that became troublesome, of course, was the worry that the audience was going to get confused about where was [[Number Eight|Sharon]]? Which is Sharon? Why is Sharon on the planet? Why is she also on the [[Galactica type battlestar|battlestar]]? There were countless, countless, countless discussions of this idea - how to differentiate the two and the audience confusion factor was always something that was like uppermost in a lot of executive's minds. And, fortunately we overcame that and I think we split the difference and we were able to sort of compromise in a lot of areas that it was ok to compromise in to spell out the difference. This comes up just because she's beaten and sort of had some scarring going on which started to help differenterate-differentiate the two visually to the audience, which is always the sort of the fundamental idea. It's like OK at a glance you want to know this is not the same Sharon that you're watching back on the [[Galactica (RDM)|''Galactica'']]. Even if you don't know all the reasons why. And, I guess they're going to run and get on a horse and fly away. No they're not.

So here we go with the plan. I like that we didn't tell you everything that goes on in the tactical plan, that there are hidden secrets within it, some things that are hidden even from [[Laura Roslin|the President]], which I think dramatically is interesting because it gives the audience a sense of fun and a sense of excitement and a sense that something could change at any moment. It's a bit of a trick, I mean, it's a writer's device to sort of lead you down a certain path; we've essentially told you what the plan was in very general terms, without spelling too much of it out, and now here you are, you're going to watch it unfold and you're expecting the Cylons to do something unexpected, you're expecting that the Cylons will pull something at the last minute, that they will act in a way that we don't anticipate, and you're--you the audience, are anticipating that in turn, and you're kind of looking forward to it and seeing how it happens. Now, what we did on top of that in this episode was then to also to bury the card of what will ''Galactica'' - what piece of the ''Galactica'' plan has not been conveyed to you the audience that either anticipates this Cylon unexpected maneuver or outmaneuvers it at the last minute. All of this is very conceptual and I'm not even sure if it is even remotely interesting to most of you in the audience. But, in essence, it's a way of constructing these dramatic scenes in such a way (coughs) that just as you feel familiar with where it's going - and you know as an audience member that certain twists are on the horizon - you still can enjoy it because we still have some legitimate surprises to come out later.

All of this, these sequences, of course, are very influenced by classic action movies, classic World War II movies, real life documentaries of the carrier war in the Pacific, and later to some extent to the Korean and Vietnam war, and even in the carrier -- carrier combat and aircraft - aircraft something, a word that I can't - I'm reaching for but can't find - (laughs) in the way the aircraft are detailed and put into battle in the present day.

Back to the table itself - the Big Board. As I was saying earlier, once you've eliminated the idea of doing everything in space shots and also that computer graphics are not going to help you too much we came up with this idea of let's go back to what some of the great World War II movies used to do. Which was based on something very real - these big boards of pieces, ships and troops, and maneuvering tactical units - putting them on a very big map and having people move them around with sticks is something that really happened in mostly in World War II and in earlier eras as a way of sort of seeing it visually. As human beings, we're very visually oriented, we like to see where all the pieces are. And in several classic Second World War movies like ''[http://imdb.com/title/tt0054310/ Sink the Bismark!]'' or ''[http://imdb.com/title/tt0066473/ Tora! Tora! Tora!]'' or even much much less a movie called ''[http://imdb.com/title/tt0074899/ Midway]'' - about the [[Wikipedia:Battle of Midway|Battle of Midway]] - they used these large boards. With ships. Labeled them, carrier task groups and where they are in relation to the different islands. And the idea of using that in our show was unique - as far as I know. I don't remember anybody else having done this exactly like this. Or even remotely like this. And we all got really excited about it and at first our notion was to be very real. Again, always is the underlying drive in our series is to be as real as possible. And the initial pieces we were sort of going to put on this board were like the real ones which were very nondescript - they were just essentially little blocks, little pieces of paper, or construction paper or little blocks that just had very simple designators on them - you know, just sort of dry words and carrier group numbers and that sort of thing. And what we found is that it wasn't going to be visually interesting at all. It just wasn't going to conve- again, it was getting kind of boring visually to the audience, and hard to understand. And the whole point of doing this was not just to be realistic, but also to be entertaining and also to tell the story. So I believe it was [http://imdb.com/name/nm0399750/ Richard Hudolin], who is our production designer -- simply suggests why don't we use little models. And it's such a simple idea and at first I kind of resisted it cause I thought it was a little hokey. It was so great and I was so glad he did it and I'm glad that we went for it because it makes this entire sequence work.

==[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/110/bsg_ep110_5of5.mp3 Act 4]==

Anyway, using the models on the table makes it work in a very real way. You look down, you see the [[Raptor]], you know those are the Raptors. You see the Vipers there's the Vipers. Here's the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]]. Here's [[Galactica]]. It's so much - this is so easy to convey this idea. There. What's going on? The Vipers are heading back to Galactica. It would have cost quite a bit of money to do it in space. That's a simple shot. Cylons flip over, head away from those transports. That's great but if I cut to another shot of Vipers doing the same thing somewhere else you might be confused as to the relative position they're in. But on the board, '''you get it'''. You get what's going on on the board.

Now coming up, of course, is another -- yet another little homage to the original Battlestar Galactica. Because there are many little homages to the [[Galactica (TOS)|original Battlestar Galactica]]. Contrary to the views of many of our detractors, who think that we spend our time dancing up and down on the '''grave''' of the original one. That we '''enjoy''' chances to put a '''stake through the heart''' of the old show. Actually, we're kinda -we're quite fond of the old show, we mean it no disrespect, and there are many fans of the original- in the visual effects department in particular - who delight in sprinkling our rag-tag fleet with models and ships from the original. And coming up is one of those original ships from the original Battlestar Galactica which was featured prominently virtually every week because it was one of their stock shots that they used over and over and '''over''' again- which -- not that we don't use stock shots over and over again but it was one of the more recognizable ships of their fleet. And there it is! I believe that was called the [[Colonial Movers]]. And it's hiding our Vipers. Which I think is such a cool gag - when the guys came up with this (helicopter noises) --this -- the -- I'm sorry, there's an aircraft going overhead - I am in my undisclosed location somewhere in the greater Los Angeles area - and they are looking for me constantly.

Anyway, this whole sequence is in large large measure has - is a salute to the efforts of everyone at Zoic and many other artists and artisans (unintelligible) who have aided in this episode in our visual effects department. And [[http://imdb.com/name/nm0404690/ Gary Hutzel]] - who is our Visual Effects Supervisor - who's just one of the key players on our team - and he - Gary -- the director and the writers worked very closely on all this. I - my rewrite - and I've said before that I do production rewrites (helicopter noise) - again the aircraft - the black helicopters are hunting me even as we speak -- I always do a rewrite and a pass through of scripts to varying degrees - this was the script I did the least of. I didn't do a huge rewrite on this episode -- it's really a salute to the writers and director and Gary Hutzel how well this all works out. This is all very complicated material, this is all expensive material, we had to save our pennies and hoard our visual effects budget for quite a while to make all this work. What's nice about this sort of show and these episodes are all these other Viper pilots, I think, because you need to put faces to these other pilots to care about them and you'll recognize [[Louanne Katraine|Kat]] is one of the faces you saw go by very briefly and Cat was one of the nuggets, one of the new pilots that [[Kara Thrace|Kara]] had trained way back in ''[[Act of Contrition]]''. Which again was -- is another nice little bit of continuity.

All of this -- all of this action is influenced very heavily by the way real pilots conduct tactical missions, coming in along the deck, how they respond and try to avoid and evade and sometimes not evade anti-aircraft fire. Certainly, these are all reminiscent of scenes we have all seen from shots of pilots over Baghdad in both Gulf Wars. We tried very hard to be as true to those tactics and those missions as we could. We couldn't do everything, there are certainly valid areas of criticism, I think, that a real pilot and a real military officers will bring to the series. And they do. And I think that's perfectly legitimate. We- as much as I want it to be a documentary-like series, it's not a documentary, it is a dramatic show and we try really hard to give it a '''sense''' of realness. It's a '''sense''' of realism that you want. You want to believe these things are really happening, even thought they're not. So we do strive and we have technical advisors and we strive every week to make these things feel like they're really happening. But in the end there are compromises and there are little things that don't quite work and I'll take the responsibility for all of that. A lot of -- there are things in this episode - some of the pilot jargon back and forth - some of the wireless transmissions between the pilots - that doesn't quite ring true, that the writers called me on. There are things I did in post-production just because I had to move the story forward and sometimes you make compromises on the fly because you don't have time to do anything else and later you go 'Oh, God, he really wouldn't have said that'. But, all that aside, I think this is in many ways this is a more successful and more exciting battle sequence than we had in the miniseries. I think it's visually interesting, I think the objectives and the tactics are more complicated than the miniseries. The miniseries battles were essentially 'There they are, they're coming at us, oh, let's try and get away'. This is go into a target, set up decoys, suppression fire on the anti-aircraft, and then we've got this. This is -- this is [[Lee Adama|Apollo]] doing the [[Wikipedia:Luke Skywalker|Luke Skywalker]] gag. I mean, this is -- we talked about it. This is an homage, in some ways, to ''[[Wikipedia:Star Wars|Star Wars]]''. There's no doubt about that. It's go down into the trench go down into something and fly your Viper and do something hangin' it out there over the edge. Because the whole char-- and it's in service of a character thing; it's not not so much the plot device of how to destroy the Cylon base -- it's really a character gag. We wanted Lee to do something crazy. Like Kara would do. That was the whole point. Apollo doing really a Starbuck move to prove to himself and everyone else that he's capable of doing these kinds of things.

What I did tell Gary Hutzel on this run through the tunnel was I said make it look as difficult as possible but don't make it look impossible. I don't want it to be like the sequence in ''[[Wikipedia:Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi|Return of the Jedi]]'' where the X-Wings, the ''[[Wikipedia:Millennium Falcon|Millennium Falcon]]'' go inside the battlestar -- the [[Wikipedia:Death Star|Death Star]] -- under construction. And you just don't believe for a second that they could really fly in there - the tolerances are so tight and they have to move so quickly and there's just no way - you just know that they'd smash into the wall. So in that sequence you just watch. The Viper is not moving at an impossible speed, it's not moving in an impossible way and the tunnel is not so narrow that he could not have piloted through it. Given that it is a spaceship and not an aircraft -- so the fact that he could stop and do that -- see, that's all great stuff. This breaks this sort of language that you usually have in space opera, that ships move like aircraft or like naval vessels. I wanted the spaceships to move like spaceships which means they can stop, they can turn around, they can flip end over end, they can -- they are not bound by the same aerodynamic limitations that real aircraft are. They are spaceships, they are bounded by the laws of physics. So, Gary and Zoic worked very hard under that dictum and we often sent shots back because we don't want them to look like planes in air we want them to look like spaceships in space. And for the most part I think we're quite successful at that. And I think what's interesting is that many times you see the spaceships moving like a fighter --like a traditional fighter -- and then it does something like you just saw where it stops, spins, turns, and goes the other direction. And it catches you completely off guard and it reminds you 'Oh, yeah these are spaceships'.

These kinds of scenes are interesting to me because these are the kinds of scenes I'm usually afraid of, frankly, in scripts. I'm usually afraid of the moment when you script the- 'and the crew gives out a cheer and everybody breaks into applause' -- because my experience is usually those moments fall flat and that usually it feels forced and phony and you don't really buy it. What's interesting in our show is whenever we've asked for one of those moments they have felt genuine and they have felt - I felt - an emotional release. And like this little bit here, this lovely bit between [[Laura Roslin|Laura]] and Starbuck, and she hugs her. I just love that. It moves me. It makes me feel these are real people. All these people feel like real -- all these characters feel like real people to me. And I think that's the key, is what we have tried so hard in the show is to convey a sense of realism so that you can accept these characters as flesh and blood human beings. And once you cross that threshold, then you share their victories and you cry in their defeats and this is one of those moments where you just believe it - you believe given this whole episode you've seen that they would need a release that they would actually celebrate. And that they would be happy and it doesn't just feel like forced frivolity and it feels like genuine release of emotion, which I think is they key.

What's also interesting about this little bit is that - the cigar. Y'know what, I don't care what the anti-smoking folks, the PC tobacco folks wanna say - I like it, we're gonna keep doing it. People smoke, they're human beings, it's their choice, let 'em. And I think it's a symbol -- in areas -- tok -- lighting up the stogie -- like many, many, many fighter pilots have beforehand and many will after in the moment of celebration and I think that's great.

And there's the lighter back to [[William Adama|Dad]].

It's a honest episode. It's a Big Mac, but sometimes Big Macs are really good and they taste really good. You just have to be sure that you make them well. And I think we made this one pretty well.

Now the coda to this, this little bit with [[Gaius Baltar|Baltar]] and [[Number Siz|Six]] which we haven't talked on at all, also continues his continuity, his movement through the show in a philosophical and religious sense to the point where he's starting to wonder what's going on. We've made all these connections and him as a rational, secular scientist has to look around him and realize that maybe things are not what they seem, but much, as much as he wants to deny the existence of [[God]], and certainly the Cylon God, things do tend to work the way Six tells him. God's hand does seem to be in play in many ways in this episode. And in the series. But what does that say? What does that say to Gaius Baltar, the skeptic and secularist, what does it say to him. How does he start to put this all together? In his mind, as evidence piles atop evidence, that perhaps there is a God and perhaps it is her God, perhaps he has been visited by not just a chip in his head, or by a subconscious psychotic break, but perhaps God is speaking to him in some bizarre way. And where will that take him? Where will it take him by the end of the series is a fascinating question and one that myself and the other writers are enjoying exploring at this very moment.

I think, --yeah, we're getting ready for the close of the episode, and we are moving to one of my favorite shots in the series, one of my favorite moments in character bits, and then there is this shot, which I believe is actually [[David Eick|David Eick's]] idea. David spends far more time on the actual set than I do. He's in Canada far more than I am, I sort of bounce back and forth between the L.A. writers office and post-production is down here and the Vancouver shooting stages. And David is up there much more. He's directly - sitting next to the director many times. And this upcoming shot where we end the episode, I believe, was David's idea. And as soon as I saw it, I fell on the floor laughing and just loving it. This. (laughs) You gotta love that.

Well, thank you ladies and gentlemen, and I will be talking to you again on [[Colonial Day]].

Battlestar Wiki:Podcast Transcripts

2006-06-06T01:17:47Z

Strangefreeworld: /* Sacrifice */

{{project|Podcast Transcripts|image=BSG WIKI Podcast.png|shortcut=BW:POD}}
This project is meant to coordinate and standardize the transcription of [[Ronald D. Moore]]'s freely available episode podcasts. Our goal is to produce a searchable text repository for purposes of citation. At this time, we will only be transcribing freely available podcasts from [http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/ SciFi.com], not additonal DVD commentaries. Ron D. Moore and David Eick have recorded commentary tracks for the [[Miniseries]] (also including director Michael Rymer), "[[33]]", "[[Bastille Day]]", "[[Act of Contrition]]", and "[[You Can't Go Home Again]]". However, they have not been put up online for free but are only available in the Season 1 DVD set. Therefore, transcripts of these are not provided here, though relevant quotes may be found sourced in certain articles on Battlestar Wiki.

This project is a daughter of the [[Battlestar Wiki:Citation Jihad|Citation Jihad]].

==Standards==

===Namespace===
Podcast transcripts should be named after the episode to which they correspond with the addition of the (podcast) namespace, for example, [[Podcast:Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]].

===Structure===
Begin each podcast article with the template:
:<nowiki>{{podcast|author=YourNameHere|emailAuthor2=|suffix=|additionalCopyright=}}</nowiki>

Use first-level headings to divide Teaser and Act breaks. Make each heading an offsite link to the appropriate podcast segment, e.g.

==[<nowiki>http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/109/bsg_ep109_1of5.mp3</nowiki> Teaser]==

Try to break up RDMs comments into paragraphs along topical lines.

For those podcasts that are not [[Ronald D. Moore]]'s, please refer to {{tl|podcastother}} for transcribing other podcasts.

===Transcription===
RDM frequently uses "uh", "um" and "y'know" as discourse particles. For readabilities sake, try to exclude these where they interrupt the flow of an otherwise grammatical sentence.

Where RDM interrupts himself, end the last word of the first statement with an emdash. You may include whatever discourse particles he uses to introduce the next thought. For example:

"I think it's a very good movie, one that I always thought was a— y'know, prime for us to do a riff on."

Generally, you may ignore emphasis except where RDM's tone is critical to the interpretation of a statement (e.g. sarcasm).

===Links===
Where RDM mentions a BSG episode or character, link to our own article. Where he mentions a television show or actor which we do not have (or need) our own article for, offer a link to the corresponding page on IMDB. If another resource such as Wikipedia or Memory Alpha has more comprehensive information, you may link there at your discretion. To avoid overlinking, only link once per act break.

===Corrections===
Except for simple spelling errors, do not offer a "correction" without first having listened to the relevant portion of the recording. Always leave a comment on the talk page explaining your change.

===Application===
[http://nch.com.au/scribe/index.html Express Scribe] is a piece of free software (they give it away in the hopes that you buy the tie-in products) that allows you to playback the podcasts with hotkey controls (so you can edit in the ''Battlestar Wiki'' window but still pause/rewind/play), as well as allowing for variable speed playback (so you can transcribe at a slower rate).

==Checkins==
When you begin work on a transcription, place your name beside the segment you are working on. When you've completed and uploaded it, mark your name next to "Transcribed". Afterwards, it would be helpful for a second user to verify the transcription.
===Season 1 podcasts===
*[[Podcast:The Hand of God|The Hand of God]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/110/bsg_ep110_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:strangefreeworld|strangefreeworld]] 17:12, 19 May 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 06:31, 22 May 2006 (CDT).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/110/bsg_ep110_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:strangefreeworld|strangefreeworld]] 21:21 24 May 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 07:33, 25 May 2006 (CDT).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/110/bsg_ep110_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:strangefreeworld|strangefreeworld]] 19:10 27 May 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 10:52, 30 May 2006 (CDT).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/110/bsg_ep110_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:strangefreeworld|strangefreeworld]] 19:22 27 May 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 11:20, 30 May 2006 (CDT).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/110/bsg_ep110_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Colonial Day|Colonial Day]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/111/bsg_ep111_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Misco|Misco]] 11:02, 15 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:25, 16 March 2006 (CST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/111/bsg_ep111_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/111/bsg_ep111_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/111/bsg_ep111_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/111/bsg_ep111_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I|Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/112/bsg_ep112_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Undc23|Undc23]] 23:38, 2 January 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 15:25, 1 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/112/bsg_ep112_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Undc23|Undc23]] 01:50, 3 January 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 15:25, 1 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/112/bsg_ep112_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:Undc23|Undc23]] 07:49, 4 January 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 09:23, 2 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/112/bsg_ep112_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:Undc23|Undc23]] 07:49, 4 January 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 09:42, 2 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/112/bsg_ep112_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: [[User:Undc23|Undc23]] 10:09, 1 February 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 09:59, 2 February 2006 (EST).)
*[[Podcast:Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II|Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/113/bsg_ep113_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/113/bsg_ep113_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/113/bsg_ep113_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/113/bsg_ep113_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/113/bsg_ep113_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)

===Season 2 podcasts===
*[[Podcast:Scattered|Scattered]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/201/bsg_ep201_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Huh?|Huh?]] 11:15, 23 May 2006 (CDT). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:14, 23 May 2006 (CDT).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/201/bsg_ep201_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/201/bsg_ep201_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/201/bsg_ep201_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/201/bsg_ep201_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Valley of Darkness|Valley of Darkness]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/202/bsg_ep202_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/202/bsg_ep202_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/202/bsg_ep202_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/202/bsg_ep202_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/202/bsg_ep202_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Resistance|Resistance]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/204/bsg_ep204_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/204/bsg_ep204_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/204/bsg_ep204_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/204/bsg_ep204_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/204/bsg_ep204_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:The Farm|The Farm]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/205/bsg_ep205_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/205/bsg_ep205_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/205/bsg_ep205_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/205/bsg_ep205_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/205/bsg_ep205_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Home, Part I|Home, Part I]] (with David Eick)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/206/bsg_ep206_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/206/bsg_ep206_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/206/bsg_ep206_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/206/bsg_ep206_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/206/bsg_ep206_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Home, Part II|Home, Part II]] (with David Eick)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/207/bsg_ep207_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/207/bsg_ep207_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/207/bsg_ep207_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/207/bsg_ep207_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/207/bsg_ep207_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Final Cut|Final Cut]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/208/bsg_ep208_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/208/bsg_ep208_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/208/bsg_ep208_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/208/bsg_ep208_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/208/bsg_ep208_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Flight of the Phoenix|Flight of the Phoenix]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/209/bsg_ep209_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Misco|Misco]] 19:58, 14 February 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 15:30, 14 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/209/bsg_ep209_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Misco|Misco]] 20:14, 14 February 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 22:52, 14 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/209/bsg_ep209_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:Misco|Misco]] 22:23, 14 February 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 23:10, 14 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/209/bsg_ep209_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:Misco|Misco]] 00:46, 15 February 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 09:57, 15 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/209/bsg_ep209_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: [[User:Misco|Misco]] 04:22, 15 February 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 10:50, 15 February 2006 (EST).)
*[[Podcast:Pegasus|Pegasus]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/210/bsg_ep210_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Ricimer|Ricimer]] 22:25, 14 December 2005 (EST). Verified: [[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 05:22, 15 December 2005 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/210/bsg_ep210_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 11:38, 21 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 21:58, 22 March 2006 (CST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/210/bsg_ep210_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 14:23, 30 March 2006 (CST). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/210/bsg_ep210_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:23, 11 April 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/210/bsg_ep210_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:35, 17 April 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Resurrection Ship, Part I|Resurrection Ship, Part I]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/211/bsg_ep211_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 14:25, 7 January 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Joe.Beaudoin|Joe Beaudoin]] 10:39, 8 January 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/211/bsg_ep211_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 21:46, 16 January 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 11:15, 1 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/211/bsg_ep211_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 20:21, 14 February 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 23:34, 14 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/211/bsg_ep211_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 22:13, 17 February 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 23:52, 18 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/211/bsg_ep211_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 16:02, 15 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 22:20, 16 March 2006 (CST).)
*[[Podcast:Resurrection Ship, Part II|Resurrection Ship, Part II]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/212/bsg_ep212_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/212/bsg_ep212_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/212/bsg_ep212_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/212/bsg_ep212_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/212/bsg_ep212_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Epiphanies|Epiphanies]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/213/bsg_ep213_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Misco|Misco]] 20:30, 15 February 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 09:24, 16 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/213/bsg_ep213_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Misco|Misco]] 06:23, 16 February 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 09:24, 16 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/213/bsg_ep213_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:Misco|Misco]] 07:24, 19 February 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 09:46, 20 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/213/bsg_ep213_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:Misco|Misco]] 09:50, 19 February 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 09:46, 20 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/213/bsg_ep213_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: [[User:Misco|Misco]] 16:33, 13 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 07:25, 14 March 2006 (CST).)
*[[Podcast:Black Market|Black Market]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/214/bsg_ep214_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/214/bsg_ep214_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/214/bsg_ep214_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/214/bsg_ep214_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/214/bsg_ep214_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Scar|Scar]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/215/bsg_ep215_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/215/bsg_ep215_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/215/bsg_ep215_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/215/bsg_ep215_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/215/bsg_ep215_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
====[[Podcast:Sacrifice|Sacrifice]]====
:*[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/216/bsg_ep216_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:14, 18 May 2006 (CDT). Verified: [[User:strangefreeworld|strangefreeworld]] 22:30, 27 May 2006 (EDT).)
:*[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/216/bsg_ep216_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 12:13, 24 May 2006 (CDT). Verified: [[User:strangefreeworld|strangefreeworld]] 16:11, 28 May 2006 (EDT).)
:*[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/216/bsg_ep216_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:19, 5 June 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
:*[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/216/bsg_ep216_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
:*[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/216/bsg_ep216_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:The Captain's Hand|The Captain's Hand]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/217/bsg_ep217_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:28, 2 May 2006 (CDT). Verified: [[User:strangefreeworld|strangefreeworld]] 21:10, 5 June 2006 (EDT).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/217/bsg_ep217_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 15:39, 3 May 2006 (CDT). Verified: [[User:strangefreeworld|strangefreeworld]] 21:20, 5 June 2006 (EDT).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/217/bsg_ep217_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 11:59, 5 May 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/217/bsg_ep217_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 14:00, 8 May 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/217/bsg_ep217_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 15:32, 9 May 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Downloaded|Downloaded]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/218/bsg_ep218_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 00:00, 4 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 19:16, 5 March 2006 (CST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/218/bsg_ep218_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 01:06, 4 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 14:32, 6 March 2006 (CST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/218/bsg_ep218_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 01:37, 4 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:37, 7 March 2006 (CST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/218/bsg_ep218_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 09:50, 4 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 19:34, 8 March 2006 (CST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/218/bsg_ep218_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 11:01, 4 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:30, 9 March 2006 (CST).)
*[[Podcast:Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I|Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/219/bsg_ep219_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 08:30, 19 April 2006 (CDT). Verified: [[User:Shane|Shane]] ([[User_Talk:Shane|T]] - [[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]]) 11:30, 8 May 2006 (CDT).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/219/bsg_ep219_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 16:21, 19 April 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/219/bsg_ep219_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 11:20, 20 April 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/219/bsg_ep219_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 14:20, 21 April 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/219/bsg_ep219_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 10:31, 24 April 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II|Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/220/bsg_ep220_1of7.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 18:17, 11 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 14:00, 13 March 2006 (CST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/220/bsg_ep220_2of7.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 22:32, 14 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:11, 16 March 2006 (CST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/220/bsg_ep220_3of7.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 17:32, 19 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:21, 20 March 2006 (CST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/220/bsg_ep220_4of7.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 17:34, 8 April 2006 (CDT). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 11:37, 10 April 2006 (CDT).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/220/bsg_ep220_5of7.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/220/bsg_ep220_6of7.mp3 Act 5] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/220/bsg_ep220_7of7.mp3 Act 6] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)

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[[Category: Podcasts]]

Kara Thrace

2006-05-30T02:01:03Z

Strangefreeworld: /* Background */

:''This article discusses the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Re-imagined Series]] character with the pilot callsign of "Starbuck." For more on Kara Thrace's counterpart in the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]], see [[Starbuck (TOS)]].''
{{Character Data|
|photo= [[Image:Kara Thrace.jpg|200px]]
|age=
|colony= [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]]
|birthname= Kara Thrace
|callsign= Starbuck
|death=
|parents=
|siblings=
|children=
|marital status= Married to [[Samuel Anders]] (Formerly engaged to [[Zak Adama]])
|role= Unknown, Formerly: Commander Air Group, Battlestar ''Galactica'' ([[The Captain's Hand]])
|rank= Captain
|actor= [[Katee Sackhoff]]
|cylon=
|name=
}}

== Biography ==

=== Background ===

'''Kara "Starbuck" Thrace''', serial number [?]T-462753, is a gifted pilot - and knows it. This has tended to give her an attitude that has at times thwarted her career advancement.

In an unhappy childhood, she was so frequently beaten by her mother that she came to accept pain as a way of life ([[Flesh and Bone]]). Her father was a pianist ([[Valley of Darkness]]), suggesting that her formerly broken finger bones on both hands had been intentionally broken by a parent using her father's piano ([[The Farm]]). Kara left home to join the [[Colonial Fleet|military]]. She was a very talented [[pyramid]] player([[Resistance]]), and received a scholarship to the Fleet Academy to play pyramid. During this time, she injured her knee and was no longer able to play pyramid at a professional level. During that time, however, she discovered a passion and skill at being a fighter pilot ([[Podcast:The Hand of God]]). On graduating from Colonial Flight School, she undertook a period of active duty before returning to flight school as an instructor.

It was in this role that Thrace broke her cardinal rule of flying and fell in love with a young recruit, [[Zak Adama]]. Despite Zak's mediocre performance as a pilot, Thrace's love for him - and the fact that she could see emulating his father was so important to him - caused her to pass him on his final flight examination, despite failing three of the required maneuvers ([[Act of Contrition]]).

Already engaged to Zak at the time she passed him for flight status, she was unable to marry him, as he was killed during a routine mission shortly after graduating. At the time, [[Lee Adama]], Zak's elder brother, blamed their father for Zak's death, and in her guilt, Kara did little to alter this idea. She did, however, meet [[William Adama]] shortly after the accident, and the two struck up such a strong rapport that they stood together at Zak's funeral ([[Act of Contrition]]).

Following the funeral, Kara resigned from flight School as a instructor and transferred as an operational pilot aboard [[Galactica type battlestar|battlestar]] ''[[Galactica]]'' under the command of William Adama, where she served for some two years prior to the [[Cylon attack]] on the [[Twelve Colonies]]. Before the Cylon attack, she was second in command of pilots to the [[CAG]], [[Jackson Spencer]].

While she is temporarily in the brig for fighting with Colonel Tigh, Captain Spencer is killed in a Cylon slaughter of ''Galactica's'' last Viper squadron. With her incarceration, Lee Adama, who joins ''Galactica'', is given the senior pilot title. Apparently, she approves of Apollo being assigned the leadership role: "I'm not a big enough dipstick for the job," she says about herself ([[Miniseries]]).

During her time aboard ''Galactica'', Kara's flying skills proves her as one of finest pilots in the Colonial Fleet, but her attitude quickly runs her afoul of other senior officers on-board ship, notably Colonel [[Saul Tigh]], ''Galactica's'' [[Executive officer]]. Tigh and Thrace take an instant dislike to each other, perhaps each seeing a similar level of failure in the other: Tigh with his drinking problem, and Thrace with the knowledge that she caused [[Zak Adama]]'s death. Their open mutual dislike of one another leads to the point where blows are exchanged, with Thrace ending up in the brig ([[Miniseries]]).

At the time of the Cylon attack she has an apartment in [[Delphi]]. It overlooks a parking lot and had a broken toilet. She was also a very avid painter, and her flat is cluttered with her paintings ([[Valley of Darkness]]).

=== Post-[[Cylon Attack]] ===

Following the Cylon attack on the Twelve Colonies, Thrace returns to flight status, where she quickly proves her worth as a remarkable pilot - right down to using her own Viper to rescue Lee Adama when his ship is disabled in the [[Battle of Ragnar Anchorage|escape from Ragnar Anchorage]] ([[Miniseries]]). This action brings her grudging respect from Colonel Tigh, but she is unable to accept his offer of the olive branch - an act that will have repercussions for her later.
[[image:Bastille_Day-Starbuck_Boxey.jpg|thumb|left|[[Kara Thrace|Starbuck]] as acting [[CAG]] with [[Boxey (RDM)|Boxey]] as assistant in [[Bastille Day]]. (C. Sci Fi Channel)]]
After ''Galactica'' suffers a drastic loss of water reserves due to an act of sabotage ([[Water]]), a hostage situation erupts on a [[Astral Queen|prison transport ship]], involving Lee Adama ([[Bastille Day]]). While Captain Adama is being held hostage, Lt. Thrace serves as interim [[CAG]] in the briefing room. Tigh criticizes her behavior as acting [[CAG]].

Thrace aides in assembling a rescue mission on the ''[[Astral Queen]]''. Surprisingly, Thrace gets the backing of Tigh himself and the acknowledgment that she is the best sharpshooter in [[The Fleet (RDM)|the Fleet]]. Following the successful mission, Thrace tries to mend fences between herself and the XO with a toast (consisting of water), apologizing in much the same way as Tigh himself had tried after their initial escape from [[Ragnar Anchorage]]. But this time it is Tigh that rejects Thrace's apology, stating that her flaws are professional, while his flaws were personal ([[Bastille Day]]).

Having partially admitting her role in Zak Adama's death to Lee Adama ([[Miniseries]]), Thrace must confront her past head-on when a freak accident on ''Galactica's'' [[Hangar Deck|hangar deck]] kills 13 Viper pilots and puts a further seven pilots in [[sickbay]]. Charged with finding and training new pilots ("[[nugget|nuggets]]" in pilot slang), Thrace faces up to past mistakes, and eventually admits her secret to William Adama himself, an act that brings their close friendship almost to the breaking point ([[Act of Contrition]]).

Shortly after, Thrace engages a fight with eight Cylon Raiders while leading a training flight from ''Galactica'', Thrace orders her training cadets to return to ''Galactica'' and engages the enemy fighters. One cadet, [[Brendan Constanza|Hot Dog]], disobeys Thrace and fights as her wingman long enough to distract the Raiders sufficiently to where Thrace's odds of survival are increased. Starbuck's remarkable flying destroys almost all the Raiders, but a final Raider critically damages her Viper just as she shoots the Raider. Both ships lose control and tumble towards a small red moon with an unbreathable atmosphere. With her Viper in a fatal flat-spin, Starbuck is forced to eject from her Viper ([[You Can't Go Home Again]]).

The crash prompts ''Galactica'' to conduct a system-wide search for Starbuck, led by Adama and his son, each reacting to his guilt at his response to her admission about Zak Adama. While the search and rescue operations place [[The Fleet (RDM)|the Fleet]] at extreme risk, they nevertheless keep the Fleet in the star system long enough for Thrace (nursing a damaged knee) to repair the downed Cylon Raider and get it flying again before using it to return to ''Galactica'', which provides Adama with vital intelligence on Cylon fighter technology.

Taken off the pilot's active duty roster as a result of her injured leg, Starbuck sees her role become more desk-bound. She is recognized by Commander Adama for her unconventional thinking, and he asks her to plan a special attack on a Cylon [[tylium]] refinery. The tactical planning role is not something she relishes, and she frequently shows resentment towards others for her condition ([[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]).

She also interrogates a Cylon prisoner. The interrogation of [[Leoben Conoy]] is a task Thrace does not particularly wish for, especially when the situation (a nuclear device allegedly hidden on one of the ships in the Fleet) pushes her into some drastic acts to try to extract the information from the Cylon agent ([[Flesh and Bone]]).

Off-duty, Thrace maintains her cocky persona by playing cards and gambling for money. Her devil-may-care attitude brings her to the attention of Doctor [[Gaius Baltar]] ([[Water]]). She becomes quite interested in Baltar at first, but she quickly comes to despise him for reasons not quite clear. Despite her reckless approach to life, Thrace hides the fact that she is deeply spiritual. She frequently prays (or talks) to the [[Lords of Kobol]], particularly [[Aphrodite]] and [[Artemis]] in times of need ([[Miniseries]], "[[Flesh and Bone]]", "[[You Can't Go Home Again]]").

=== The Arrow of Apollo ===
[[image:Starbuck-Kobols_Last_Gleaming_pt2.jpg|thumb|right|'''Starbuck''' retrieves the [[Arrow of Apollo]] in [[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]].]]
Being the only qualified pilot to fly the Cylon Raider, Thrace is assigned to plant a nuclear device on board a [[Basestar (RDM)|basestar]] in orbit around [[Kobol]]. Before the assignment, [[Laura Roslin]] calls a meeting with her and convinces Thrace to jump to [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]] to retrieve the [[Arrow of Apollo]]. Disobeying orders, disillusioned after confirming that Commander Adama fabricated that he knew the actual location of [[Earth]], she Jumps to Caprica in the Raider ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]), landing in [[Delphi]]. Upon recovering the unusual Arrow in the [[Delphi Museum of the Colonies]], she is violently attacked by a copy of [[Number Six]]. Despite being heavily outmatched in the fight, Thrace luckily defeats the Cylon, who was mortally wounded after being impaled with a piece of jutting debris as the two women fell to a bombed-out lower level.

At the museum, she discovers [[Karl Agathon|Helo]], whom she thought dead. She also discovers a second copy of [[Sharon Valerii]] and realizes instantly that the woman is a Cylon. Thrace attempts to shoot her, but Helo stops Thrace and reveals to Starbuck that the "Caprica" Valerii is pregnant with his child, adding more to Kara's stress level to the point where she begins to sob ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]). To make matters worse, Valerii, fearing for her child, runs away and steals Thrace's Raider. Starbuck hears the whine of the fighter's engines but is too late to stop the Cylon's escape. In exasperation, Starbuck could only mutter: "Bitch took my ride" ([[Scattered]]). Like Helo, Starbuck was left with no way to return to the Fleet unless she could find her Raider or another Cylon spacecraft, as enemy FTL engines were the only ones sufficently powerful to reach the Fleet.

Starbuck is not sympathetic to Helo's love for the Caprica copy of Sharon, and berates him for his stupidity. Thrace makes a pit stop from the fighting and leads Helo to her old apartment in Delphi. There she digs up a stash of [[fumarello]]s, dons an old military fatigue jacket she apparently wore around her home, and starts up a battery-powered music player. The piano music she listens to is something recorded of her father's, a pianist. Throughout the dusty, but intact apartment were paintings Thrace had made, some fascinating, but many eerie in tone. Helo has little luck in finding food, but Thrace finds the keys of her surplus military utility vehicle in her jacket. Thrace has a ride again, if only to move more efficiently about Caprica ([[Valley of Darkness]]).

Thrace and Helo are initially attacked by a [[Resistance (movement)|resistance movement]] on Caprica. In a standoff, ([[Resistance]]) Thrace and the Resistance leader, [[Samuel Anders]], sufficiently convince each other that neither of them are Cylon agents. Thrace and Anders strike up a rapport as fellow [[pyramid (RDM)|pyramid]] players and end up as lovers. During planning to steal a [[Heavy Raider]], Thrace is shot in a military action, waking up in a hospital on Caprica. Thrace is told by her doctor, [[Simon]], that Anders died from wounds he suffered in getting Thrace to safety.

But Thrace's instincts about her doctor nag her, particularly after some mysterious surgeries by Simon. Her suspicions are confirmed when she discovers that Simon is working with a [[Number Six|known Cylon agent]]. She overhears that the next day he plans to extract her ovaries for use in the Cylon's attempts to study and create a hybrid Cylon/human embryo. Simon also makes the mistake of calling Thrace by her callsign, Starbuck, which she had never revealed. Staggering and in pain, Thrace kills Simon and manages to escape to the front of the hospital, but not before clocking a Six copy with a fire extinguisher and destroying the local farm power supply, mercy-killing [[Sue-Shaun]] and several other women in the facility.

Simon reappears in front of Thrace at the exit to the hospital just as the Resistance attacks the facility. The second Simon, now revealed as a Cylon agent himself, is immediately killed by the Resistance, but a squad of [[Cylon Centurion]]s appear and pins the Resistance down. Luckily, the [[Sharon Valerii (Caprica copy)|Caprica copy of Sharon Valerii]] swoops in with a stolen [[Heavy Raider]], destroys the Centurions and flies the Resistance and Thrace out of harm's way.

Thrace promises to Anders that she'll return with a rescue mission for the remaining survivors, leaving him her [[Identification Tags|identification tags]] as a promise and friendship token. Anders returns the Arrow of Apollo to Thrace, which he hid on the resistance grounds for safekeeping ([[The Farm]]).

Thrace, Helo and the pregnant Valerii land on the ''[[Astral Queen]]'' in the Heavy Raider. Finding the [[Laura Roslin faction]] in orbit of [[Kobol]], Kara is reunited with Lee. He kisses her impulsively, catching Kara by pleasant surprise, but a tense standoff follows when Apollo discovers that another Valerii copy has returned with them. Roslin helps defuse the situation, and Thrace delivers the Arrow of Apollo to the President.

Temporarily removed from the protocol of military discipline a few hours before their departure to Kobol's surface, Lee playfully teases Kara by stealing a pyramid ball she took from Caprica. Lee senses her depression about Caprica and tells her that he'd be happy to hear about any problems she had. He also let slip that he loved her, which brightened Kara's mood to the point where she teased him back about his slip.

With a team led by Laura Roslin, Lee Adama, and, later, joined by the recovered Commander Adama, Thrace enters the [[Tomb of Athena]] and successfully uses the Arrow of Apollo to activate a hologram that shows constellations of the Twelve Colonies' ancient symbols.

:'''[[Billy Keikeya]]''': Uh... where the hell are we? 
:'''Laura Roslin''': I don't know. Tomb of Athena, I think. 
:'''Commander Adama''': I thought we were already in the tomb. 
:'''Kara Thrace''': I think that was the lobby. 

Thrace realizes that they are on a recreation of Earth, and realizes they are seeing, in a sense, what their brothers would see in Earth's sky. Together with Lee Adama, they locate the Lagoon Nebula, a celestial body known to Commander Adama and Lee Adama, and gather sufficient information to begin an actual course to Earth ([[Home, Part II]]).

Thrace and Lee Adama continue to appear more and more comfortable in their working and off-duty friendship. They compliment each other often when in live-fire encounters ([[Home, Part II]]) as well as off-duty practice ([[Flight of the Phoenix]]). Thrace never fails to playfully tease Lee when she can, showing off the impressive stealth abilities and her flying skills of the new [[Blackbird]] fighter in her maiden flight ([[Flight of the Phoenix]]).

=== Enter ''Pegasus'' ===

With the initially welcome discovery of another Colonial battlestar, ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'', Admiral [[Helena Cain]] summarily assigns Thrace (and Lee Adama) to ''Pegasus'' after digesting the reports of ''Galactica'''s officers, which is a source of irritation for Commander [[William Adama]].

After critically commenting against ''Pegasus'' [[CAG]] Captain [[Cole Taylor]]'s plan to recon the [[Resurrection Ship]] tracking [[The Fleet (RDM)|the Fleet]], Taylor removes Thrace from the mission. Lee Adama, also miffed by Thrace's and his change in seniority, secretly tells her to use the newly built [[Blackbird]] stealth craft to take recon photos of the Cylon Unknown. Adama believes that the stealth craft has a better chance of taking reconnaissance photos due to its stealth abilities; like Thrace, he believes that Vipers and a Raptor wouldn't be an effective recon force. ([[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]])

Thrace is away on her covert recon mission, unaware of the showdown between Commander Adama and Admiral Cain over Cain's totalitarian command style in her quick conviction of [[Karl Agathon|Helo]] and [[Galen Tyrol]] for the accidental death of "Cylon interrogator" Lt. [[Alistair Thorne]].

Upon return from her very successful mission, the [[Blackbird]]'s lack of a Colonial transponder is mistaken for a Cylon [[Raider]] on [[DRADIS]], and Starbuck is nearly confronted and shot at by Vipers from ''Pegasus'' and ''Galactica''. After narrowly avoiding certain death by declaring herself a friendly, Thrace transmits her recon photos to ''Pegasus'' and Admiral Cain.

Cain is so impressed with Starbuck's performance that Cain promotes Thrace to Captain and ''Pegasus'' CAG. Cain initially wanted to place Lee Adama in the brig for his part in the unauthorized recon operation, but she chose to take Adama off of flight status. Thrace is assigned the task of planning the joint attack on the Resurrection Ship, but successfully asks to have Adama on her team, restoring him to flight status. Cain hears of Thrace's desire to return to Caprica to rescue members of the [[Resistance (movement)|Resistance]] there, but Cain suggests the idea of returning to the Colonies in an effort to beat the Cylons and win their homeworlds back. Thrace indicates approval, but her card face might have been showing. Later, Lee Adama meets with Thrace as she works on the battle plan. He complains that she appears to be working as if nothing has happened, as if the tensions between Commander Adama and Cain didn't exist. Thrace replies that while Cain was in command, there is nothing to do about the situation.

After she briefs Cain and Commander Adama on her battle plan, Adama asks her to stay behind to discuss more of the plan. In reality, he asks Thrace to assassinate Cain after the battle is complete and her fighters are accounted for. Adama fears that if Cain continues to command, he will be killed, leaving no one to stop Cain from inflicting the same fate on his Fleet as she did to a civilian fleet that ''Pegasus'' stripped for resources and left for dead in space ([[Resurrection Ship, Part I]]).

Before the attack, Thrace meets with Lee Adama, who comforts her on the task that Commander Adama asks of her.

Thrace's battle planning, as before on the tylium mine, works to near-perfection, with the Resurrection Ship destroyed and its supporting basestars. However, the plan to kill Cain is left with a serious hitch; Lieutenant Adama, who takes the [[Blackbird]] out to destroy the FTL drive on the Resurrection Ship, is missing in action, in need of rescue in space after a collision destroys the Blackbird. As such, Thrace is left without backup as she walks to the ''Pegasus'' CIC, obviously afraid and apprehensive. When Commander Adama calls, Thrace slowly moves her hand to her sidearm but, to her relief, Adama does not give the kill order and cryptically instructs her to stand down.

Thrace visits Lee Adama in pilot's quarters on ''Galactica'' after his rescue. He appears dazed and impassive. She dismisses his apology on not being able to back up Thrace on her aborted kill mission, saying that it was good for both of them just to make it back alive once more. But young Adama surprises her by saying that he didn't want to make it back alive. Nearby, [[Anastasia Dualla]], who has shown more than a passing interest in Lee Adama in the past, eavesdrops on the conversation and leaves equally worried.

A few weeks later, Thrace was taking leave on [[Cloud 9]] when she was dragooned into a rescue operation after over a dozen people, including Ellen Tigh, Billy, Dee, and Apollo were held hostage by terrorists demanding Adama turn over [[Sharon Valerii]]. Thrace attempted gather intel on the situation, but Mrs. Tigh inadvertently blew her cover. Thrace and her marines laid down some fire, removing two terrorists from the equation, but Apollo was caught in the crossfire. After the situation was resolved, Thrace intended to sit at Lee's bedside, only to discover that Dualla beat her there. ([[Sacrifice]])

About a month after the Cloud 9 incident, Thrace was assigned to Pegasus as a flight trainer. Though the pilots liked her, the ship's commander began to find fault with everything she did, eventually confining her to quarters for "insubordination" after she attempted to inform him of the Cylon ambush tactic using distress beacons. Maj. Adama covertly overruled the Commander, ordering Thrace to fly in the battle. Following the [[Battle of the Binary Star System]], when Lee was promoted to Commander and given command of ''Pegasus'', Thrace informed him that she was taking over his CAG post aboard ''Galactica''. Apparently, Adm. Adama thought it best he keep an eye on her personally ([[The Captain's Hand]]).

===Lay Down Your Burdens===
[[Image:Karanew.jpg|150px|thumb|right|Kara Thrace one year later]]
Shortly before the presidential election, Thrace took a squad of 20 raptors back to Caprica to rescue [[Samuel Anders|Anders]] and the [[Resistance]], as she promised. With permission from the president and the admiral, and with the aid of [[Sharon Valerii (Caprica copy)|Caprica-Sharon]], Starbuck and Helo were able to return to Caprica with the loss of only two Raptors. The group soon met up with Anders, who reported that their HQ had been destroyed and Thrace's timing was just perfect. A squad of Centurions fired on their position shortly thereafter. ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I]])

While waiting it out under Cylon attack, Starbuck and Anders agreed that they would kill each other rather than go back to one of the [[Farms]]. When the attack stopped, Thrace, naturally suspicious, ordered the group to "fight 'em until we can't." But the Centurions had vanished. Brother [[Cavil]] then appeared and praised the [[Lords of Kobol|Gods]] over the Cylons' abandonment of Caprica. Starbuck wasn't really surprised to discover he was a Cylon upon their return to the Fleet.

Starbuck and Anders proceeded to get drunk, and received a disastrous visitation from Apollo while doing it. This apparently led to a rift between the two comrades, such that Kara thought Lee wouldn't provide antibiotics for Anders, even a year later (either that, or something happened between the two during the year that was jumped).

Thrace married Anders, and the two moved to [[New Caprica City]]. Kara was deeply distressed when he developed pneumonia, and did her best to care for him. Life on New Caprica tempered Thrace, and she often behaved in ways Starbuck never would have. She was horrified by the sudden arrival of hundreds of Cylon ships in the sky of New Caprica. As squad after squad of Centurions marched through the city streets, a few of Galactica's former crew gathered near Thrace, looking to her for guidance. Kara responded the only way she knew how: "We fight 'em 'till we can't." ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]])

==Notes==

According to SkyOne, Thrace was born on Picon but raised all over the Twelve Colonies. Her mother was a Sergeant Major in the Colonial [[Marines]] and a decorated veteran of the [[First Cylon War]]. Her father was named Dreilide, and is described as a "frustrated" musician.

Here is SkyOne's summary of Thrace:

:''Starbuck is Commander Adama's best pilot, as well as flight partner and closest comrade to Apollo, Adama's estranged son.''

:''Kara Thrace was born on the Picon Colony, but raised all over the 12 Colonies. Her childhood was spent bouncing from one military outpost to another. Her mother was a sergeant major in the Colonial Marines, and a decorated veteran of the Cylon war. Her father, Dreilide, was a frustrated musician.''

:''Kara was a tough minded-child who dreamed of playing Pyramid in the big leagues someday. her mother wanted her to pursue a career in the military...Kara did not want this, so signed up to the academy to pursue her love of sports.''

:''Her future as a sports star ended when she was seriously injured, shattering her right knee. Most surgeons felt her knee would never be the same. Depressed, Kara applied to various post-graduate posts, but doubted she would be accepted. To her surprise, she scored the highest academic record for a flight-training exam. Kara soon discovered a love of flying.''

:''She would be a pilot for life - unless she got kicked out first, as Kara hated taking orders and military protocol. If that wasn't enough, Kara drank and gambled too much. While her academic and personal life was not first class, it couldn't be disputed that she was destined to fly.''

:''Kara served her first tour aboard the Battlestar Triton, but she was not admired by all, and soon found herself shipped back to where she started.''

:''This is where she met Zak Adama, and fell in love. Tragedy struck when Zak failed a key flight test and his plane crashed. Kara was devastated. She then spent two years on the Galactica - concentrating on her flying.''

As this information has not appeared on the Scifi.com series website or on screen, it has yet to be confirmed.

On the Sci-Fi Channel's preview for season 2.5 (US), Katee Sackoff is quoted as saying that Starbuck is "the best Viper pilot...EVER."
=== Additional Notes ===

*[[Wikipedia:Thrace|Thrace]] was a region in south-eastern Europe that was heavily influenced by the ancient Greeks and was eventually conquered by [[Wikipedia:Philip_II_of_Macedonia|Phillip II of Macedonia]]. Thracians were considered by most to be the most ferocious fighters and were often highly paid mercenaries for Greek kings.

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Kara Thrace

2006-05-30T02:00:27Z

Strangefreeworld: /* Background */

:''This article discusses the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Re-imagined Series]] character with the pilot callsign of "Starbuck." For more on Kara Thrace's counterpart in the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]], see [[Starbuck (TOS)]].''
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== Biography ==

=== Background ===

'''Kara "Starbuck" Thrace''', serial number [?]T-462753, is a gifted pilot - and knows it. This has tended to give her an attitude that has at times thwarted her career advancement.

In an unhappy childhood, she was so frequently beaten by her mother that she came to accept pain as a way of life ([[Flesh and Bone]]). Her father was a pianist ([[Valley of Darkness]]), suggesting that her formerly broken finger bones on both hands had been intentionally broken by a parent using her father's piano ([[The Farm]]). Kara left home to join the [[Colonial Fleet|military]]. She was a very talented [[pyramid]] player([[Resistance]]), and received a scholarship to the Fleet Academy to play pyramid. During this time, she injured her knee and was no longer able to play pyramid at a professional level. During that time, however, she discovered a passion and skill at being a fighter pilot([[Podcast:The Hand of God]]). On graduating from Colonial Flight School, she undertook a period of active duty before returning to flight school as an instructor.

It was in this role that Thrace broke her cardinal rule of flying and fell in love with a young recruit, [[Zak Adama]]. Despite Zak's mediocre performance as a pilot, Thrace's love for him - and the fact that she could see emulating his father was so important to him - caused her to pass him on his final flight examination, despite failing three of the required maneuvers ([[Act of Contrition]]).

Already engaged to Zak at the time she passed him for flight status, she was unable to marry him, as he was killed during a routine mission shortly after graduating. At the time, [[Lee Adama]], Zak's elder brother, blamed their father for Zak's death, and in her guilt, Kara did little to alter this idea. She did, however, meet [[William Adama]] shortly after the accident, and the two struck up such a strong rapport that they stood together at Zak's funeral ([[Act of Contrition]]).

Following the funeral, Kara resigned from flight School as a instructor and transferred as an operational pilot aboard [[Galactica type battlestar|battlestar]] ''[[Galactica]]'' under the command of William Adama, where she served for some two years prior to the [[Cylon attack]] on the [[Twelve Colonies]]. Before the Cylon attack, she was second in command of pilots to the [[CAG]], [[Jackson Spencer]].

While she is temporarily in the brig for fighting with Colonel Tigh, Captain Spencer is killed in a Cylon slaughter of ''Galactica's'' last Viper squadron. With her incarceration, Lee Adama, who joins ''Galactica'', is given the senior pilot title. Apparently, she approves of Apollo being assigned the leadership role: "I'm not a big enough dipstick for the job," she says about herself ([[Miniseries]]).

During her time aboard ''Galactica'', Kara's flying skills proves her as one of finest pilots in the Colonial Fleet, but her attitude quickly runs her afoul of other senior officers on-board ship, notably Colonel [[Saul Tigh]], ''Galactica's'' [[Executive officer]]. Tigh and Thrace take an instant dislike to each other, perhaps each seeing a similar level of failure in the other: Tigh with his drinking problem, and Thrace with the knowledge that she caused [[Zak Adama]]'s death. Their open mutual dislike of one another leads to the point where blows are exchanged, with Thrace ending up in the brig ([[Miniseries]]).

At the time of the Cylon attack she has an apartment in [[Delphi]]. It overlooks a parking lot and had a broken toilet. She was also a very avid painter, and her flat is cluttered with her paintings ([[Valley of Darkness]]).

=== Post-[[Cylon Attack]] ===

Following the Cylon attack on the Twelve Colonies, Thrace returns to flight status, where she quickly proves her worth as a remarkable pilot - right down to using her own Viper to rescue Lee Adama when his ship is disabled in the [[Battle of Ragnar Anchorage|escape from Ragnar Anchorage]] ([[Miniseries]]). This action brings her grudging respect from Colonel Tigh, but she is unable to accept his offer of the olive branch - an act that will have repercussions for her later.
[[image:Bastille_Day-Starbuck_Boxey.jpg|thumb|left|[[Kara Thrace|Starbuck]] as acting [[CAG]] with [[Boxey (RDM)|Boxey]] as assistant in [[Bastille Day]]. (C. Sci Fi Channel)]]
After ''Galactica'' suffers a drastic loss of water reserves due to an act of sabotage ([[Water]]), a hostage situation erupts on a [[Astral Queen|prison transport ship]], involving Lee Adama ([[Bastille Day]]). While Captain Adama is being held hostage, Lt. Thrace serves as interim [[CAG]] in the briefing room. Tigh criticizes her behavior as acting [[CAG]].

Thrace aides in assembling a rescue mission on the ''[[Astral Queen]]''. Surprisingly, Thrace gets the backing of Tigh himself and the acknowledgment that she is the best sharpshooter in [[The Fleet (RDM)|the Fleet]]. Following the successful mission, Thrace tries to mend fences between herself and the XO with a toast (consisting of water), apologizing in much the same way as Tigh himself had tried after their initial escape from [[Ragnar Anchorage]]. But this time it is Tigh that rejects Thrace's apology, stating that her flaws are professional, while his flaws were personal ([[Bastille Day]]).

Having partially admitting her role in Zak Adama's death to Lee Adama ([[Miniseries]]), Thrace must confront her past head-on when a freak accident on ''Galactica's'' [[Hangar Deck|hangar deck]] kills 13 Viper pilots and puts a further seven pilots in [[sickbay]]. Charged with finding and training new pilots ("[[nugget|nuggets]]" in pilot slang), Thrace faces up to past mistakes, and eventually admits her secret to William Adama himself, an act that brings their close friendship almost to the breaking point ([[Act of Contrition]]).

Shortly after, Thrace engages a fight with eight Cylon Raiders while leading a training flight from ''Galactica'', Thrace orders her training cadets to return to ''Galactica'' and engages the enemy fighters. One cadet, [[Brendan Constanza|Hot Dog]], disobeys Thrace and fights as her wingman long enough to distract the Raiders sufficiently to where Thrace's odds of survival are increased. Starbuck's remarkable flying destroys almost all the Raiders, but a final Raider critically damages her Viper just as she shoots the Raider. Both ships lose control and tumble towards a small red moon with an unbreathable atmosphere. With her Viper in a fatal flat-spin, Starbuck is forced to eject from her Viper ([[You Can't Go Home Again]]).

The crash prompts ''Galactica'' to conduct a system-wide search for Starbuck, led by Adama and his son, each reacting to his guilt at his response to her admission about Zak Adama. While the search and rescue operations place [[The Fleet (RDM)|the Fleet]] at extreme risk, they nevertheless keep the Fleet in the star system long enough for Thrace (nursing a damaged knee) to repair the downed Cylon Raider and get it flying again before using it to return to ''Galactica'', which provides Adama with vital intelligence on Cylon fighter technology.

Taken off the pilot's active duty roster as a result of her injured leg, Starbuck sees her role become more desk-bound. She is recognized by Commander Adama for her unconventional thinking, and he asks her to plan a special attack on a Cylon [[tylium]] refinery. The tactical planning role is not something she relishes, and she frequently shows resentment towards others for her condition ([[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]).

She also interrogates a Cylon prisoner. The interrogation of [[Leoben Conoy]] is a task Thrace does not particularly wish for, especially when the situation (a nuclear device allegedly hidden on one of the ships in the Fleet) pushes her into some drastic acts to try to extract the information from the Cylon agent ([[Flesh and Bone]]).

Off-duty, Thrace maintains her cocky persona by playing cards and gambling for money. Her devil-may-care attitude brings her to the attention of Doctor [[Gaius Baltar]] ([[Water]]). She becomes quite interested in Baltar at first, but she quickly comes to despise him for reasons not quite clear. Despite her reckless approach to life, Thrace hides the fact that she is deeply spiritual. She frequently prays (or talks) to the [[Lords of Kobol]], particularly [[Aphrodite]] and [[Artemis]] in times of need ([[Miniseries]], "[[Flesh and Bone]]", "[[You Can't Go Home Again]]").

=== The Arrow of Apollo ===
[[image:Starbuck-Kobols_Last_Gleaming_pt2.jpg|thumb|right|'''Starbuck''' retrieves the [[Arrow of Apollo]] in [[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]].]]
Being the only qualified pilot to fly the Cylon Raider, Thrace is assigned to plant a nuclear device on board a [[Basestar (RDM)|basestar]] in orbit around [[Kobol]]. Before the assignment, [[Laura Roslin]] calls a meeting with her and convinces Thrace to jump to [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]] to retrieve the [[Arrow of Apollo]]. Disobeying orders, disillusioned after confirming that Commander Adama fabricated that he knew the actual location of [[Earth]], she Jumps to Caprica in the Raider ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]), landing in [[Delphi]]. Upon recovering the unusual Arrow in the [[Delphi Museum of the Colonies]], she is violently attacked by a copy of [[Number Six]]. Despite being heavily outmatched in the fight, Thrace luckily defeats the Cylon, who was mortally wounded after being impaled with a piece of jutting debris as the two women fell to a bombed-out lower level.

At the museum, she discovers [[Karl Agathon|Helo]], whom she thought dead. She also discovers a second copy of [[Sharon Valerii]] and realizes instantly that the woman is a Cylon. Thrace attempts to shoot her, but Helo stops Thrace and reveals to Starbuck that the "Caprica" Valerii is pregnant with his child, adding more to Kara's stress level to the point where she begins to sob ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]). To make matters worse, Valerii, fearing for her child, runs away and steals Thrace's Raider. Starbuck hears the whine of the fighter's engines but is too late to stop the Cylon's escape. In exasperation, Starbuck could only mutter: "Bitch took my ride" ([[Scattered]]). Like Helo, Starbuck was left with no way to return to the Fleet unless she could find her Raider or another Cylon spacecraft, as enemy FTL engines were the only ones sufficently powerful to reach the Fleet.

Starbuck is not sympathetic to Helo's love for the Caprica copy of Sharon, and berates him for his stupidity. Thrace makes a pit stop from the fighting and leads Helo to her old apartment in Delphi. There she digs up a stash of [[fumarello]]s, dons an old military fatigue jacket she apparently wore around her home, and starts up a battery-powered music player. The piano music she listens to is something recorded of her father's, a pianist. Throughout the dusty, but intact apartment were paintings Thrace had made, some fascinating, but many eerie in tone. Helo has little luck in finding food, but Thrace finds the keys of her surplus military utility vehicle in her jacket. Thrace has a ride again, if only to move more efficiently about Caprica ([[Valley of Darkness]]).

Thrace and Helo are initially attacked by a [[Resistance (movement)|resistance movement]] on Caprica. In a standoff, ([[Resistance]]) Thrace and the Resistance leader, [[Samuel Anders]], sufficiently convince each other that neither of them are Cylon agents. Thrace and Anders strike up a rapport as fellow [[pyramid (RDM)|pyramid]] players and end up as lovers. During planning to steal a [[Heavy Raider]], Thrace is shot in a military action, waking up in a hospital on Caprica. Thrace is told by her doctor, [[Simon]], that Anders died from wounds he suffered in getting Thrace to safety.

But Thrace's instincts about her doctor nag her, particularly after some mysterious surgeries by Simon. Her suspicions are confirmed when she discovers that Simon is working with a [[Number Six|known Cylon agent]]. She overhears that the next day he plans to extract her ovaries for use in the Cylon's attempts to study and create a hybrid Cylon/human embryo. Simon also makes the mistake of calling Thrace by her callsign, Starbuck, which she had never revealed. Staggering and in pain, Thrace kills Simon and manages to escape to the front of the hospital, but not before clocking a Six copy with a fire extinguisher and destroying the local farm power supply, mercy-killing [[Sue-Shaun]] and several other women in the facility.

Simon reappears in front of Thrace at the exit to the hospital just as the Resistance attacks the facility. The second Simon, now revealed as a Cylon agent himself, is immediately killed by the Resistance, but a squad of [[Cylon Centurion]]s appear and pins the Resistance down. Luckily, the [[Sharon Valerii (Caprica copy)|Caprica copy of Sharon Valerii]] swoops in with a stolen [[Heavy Raider]], destroys the Centurions and flies the Resistance and Thrace out of harm's way.

Thrace promises to Anders that she'll return with a rescue mission for the remaining survivors, leaving him her [[Identification Tags|identification tags]] as a promise and friendship token. Anders returns the Arrow of Apollo to Thrace, which he hid on the resistance grounds for safekeeping ([[The Farm]]).

Thrace, Helo and the pregnant Valerii land on the ''[[Astral Queen]]'' in the Heavy Raider. Finding the [[Laura Roslin faction]] in orbit of [[Kobol]], Kara is reunited with Lee. He kisses her impulsively, catching Kara by pleasant surprise, but a tense standoff follows when Apollo discovers that another Valerii copy has returned with them. Roslin helps defuse the situation, and Thrace delivers the Arrow of Apollo to the President.

Temporarily removed from the protocol of military discipline a few hours before their departure to Kobol's surface, Lee playfully teases Kara by stealing a pyramid ball she took from Caprica. Lee senses her depression about Caprica and tells her that he'd be happy to hear about any problems she had. He also let slip that he loved her, which brightened Kara's mood to the point where she teased him back about his slip.

With a team led by Laura Roslin, Lee Adama, and, later, joined by the recovered Commander Adama, Thrace enters the [[Tomb of Athena]] and successfully uses the Arrow of Apollo to activate a hologram that shows constellations of the Twelve Colonies' ancient symbols.

:'''[[Billy Keikeya]]''': Uh... where the hell are we? 
:'''Laura Roslin''': I don't know. Tomb of Athena, I think. 
:'''Commander Adama''': I thought we were already in the tomb. 
:'''Kara Thrace''': I think that was the lobby. 

Thrace realizes that they are on a recreation of Earth, and realizes they are seeing, in a sense, what their brothers would see in Earth's sky. Together with Lee Adama, they locate the Lagoon Nebula, a celestial body known to Commander Adama and Lee Adama, and gather sufficient information to begin an actual course to Earth ([[Home, Part II]]).

Thrace and Lee Adama continue to appear more and more comfortable in their working and off-duty friendship. They compliment each other often when in live-fire encounters ([[Home, Part II]]) as well as off-duty practice ([[Flight of the Phoenix]]). Thrace never fails to playfully tease Lee when she can, showing off the impressive stealth abilities and her flying skills of the new [[Blackbird]] fighter in her maiden flight ([[Flight of the Phoenix]]).

=== Enter ''Pegasus'' ===

With the initially welcome discovery of another Colonial battlestar, ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'', Admiral [[Helena Cain]] summarily assigns Thrace (and Lee Adama) to ''Pegasus'' after digesting the reports of ''Galactica'''s officers, which is a source of irritation for Commander [[William Adama]].

After critically commenting against ''Pegasus'' [[CAG]] Captain [[Cole Taylor]]'s plan to recon the [[Resurrection Ship]] tracking [[The Fleet (RDM)|the Fleet]], Taylor removes Thrace from the mission. Lee Adama, also miffed by Thrace's and his change in seniority, secretly tells her to use the newly built [[Blackbird]] stealth craft to take recon photos of the Cylon Unknown. Adama believes that the stealth craft has a better chance of taking reconnaissance photos due to its stealth abilities; like Thrace, he believes that Vipers and a Raptor wouldn't be an effective recon force. ([[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]])

Thrace is away on her covert recon mission, unaware of the showdown between Commander Adama and Admiral Cain over Cain's totalitarian command style in her quick conviction of [[Karl Agathon|Helo]] and [[Galen Tyrol]] for the accidental death of "Cylon interrogator" Lt. [[Alistair Thorne]].

Upon return from her very successful mission, the [[Blackbird]]'s lack of a Colonial transponder is mistaken for a Cylon [[Raider]] on [[DRADIS]], and Starbuck is nearly confronted and shot at by Vipers from ''Pegasus'' and ''Galactica''. After narrowly avoiding certain death by declaring herself a friendly, Thrace transmits her recon photos to ''Pegasus'' and Admiral Cain.

Cain is so impressed with Starbuck's performance that Cain promotes Thrace to Captain and ''Pegasus'' CAG. Cain initially wanted to place Lee Adama in the brig for his part in the unauthorized recon operation, but she chose to take Adama off of flight status. Thrace is assigned the task of planning the joint attack on the Resurrection Ship, but successfully asks to have Adama on her team, restoring him to flight status. Cain hears of Thrace's desire to return to Caprica to rescue members of the [[Resistance (movement)|Resistance]] there, but Cain suggests the idea of returning to the Colonies in an effort to beat the Cylons and win their homeworlds back. Thrace indicates approval, but her card face might have been showing. Later, Lee Adama meets with Thrace as she works on the battle plan. He complains that she appears to be working as if nothing has happened, as if the tensions between Commander Adama and Cain didn't exist. Thrace replies that while Cain was in command, there is nothing to do about the situation.

After she briefs Cain and Commander Adama on her battle plan, Adama asks her to stay behind to discuss more of the plan. In reality, he asks Thrace to assassinate Cain after the battle is complete and her fighters are accounted for. Adama fears that if Cain continues to command, he will be killed, leaving no one to stop Cain from inflicting the same fate on his Fleet as she did to a civilian fleet that ''Pegasus'' stripped for resources and left for dead in space ([[Resurrection Ship, Part I]]).

Before the attack, Thrace meets with Lee Adama, who comforts her on the task that Commander Adama asks of her.

Thrace's battle planning, as before on the tylium mine, works to near-perfection, with the Resurrection Ship destroyed and its supporting basestars. However, the plan to kill Cain is left with a serious hitch; Lieutenant Adama, who takes the [[Blackbird]] out to destroy the FTL drive on the Resurrection Ship, is missing in action, in need of rescue in space after a collision destroys the Blackbird. As such, Thrace is left without backup as she walks to the ''Pegasus'' CIC, obviously afraid and apprehensive. When Commander Adama calls, Thrace slowly moves her hand to her sidearm but, to her relief, Adama does not give the kill order and cryptically instructs her to stand down.

Thrace visits Lee Adama in pilot's quarters on ''Galactica'' after his rescue. He appears dazed and impassive. She dismisses his apology on not being able to back up Thrace on her aborted kill mission, saying that it was good for both of them just to make it back alive once more. But young Adama surprises her by saying that he didn't want to make it back alive. Nearby, [[Anastasia Dualla]], who has shown more than a passing interest in Lee Adama in the past, eavesdrops on the conversation and leaves equally worried.

A few weeks later, Thrace was taking leave on [[Cloud 9]] when she was dragooned into a rescue operation after over a dozen people, including Ellen Tigh, Billy, Dee, and Apollo were held hostage by terrorists demanding Adama turn over [[Sharon Valerii]]. Thrace attempted gather intel on the situation, but Mrs. Tigh inadvertently blew her cover. Thrace and her marines laid down some fire, removing two terrorists from the equation, but Apollo was caught in the crossfire. After the situation was resolved, Thrace intended to sit at Lee's bedside, only to discover that Dualla beat her there. ([[Sacrifice]])

About a month after the Cloud 9 incident, Thrace was assigned to Pegasus as a flight trainer. Though the pilots liked her, the ship's commander began to find fault with everything she did, eventually confining her to quarters for "insubordination" after she attempted to inform him of the Cylon ambush tactic using distress beacons. Maj. Adama covertly overruled the Commander, ordering Thrace to fly in the battle. Following the [[Battle of the Binary Star System]], when Lee was promoted to Commander and given command of ''Pegasus'', Thrace informed him that she was taking over his CAG post aboard ''Galactica''. Apparently, Adm. Adama thought it best he keep an eye on her personally ([[The Captain's Hand]]).

===Lay Down Your Burdens===
[[Image:Karanew.jpg|150px|thumb|right|Kara Thrace one year later]]
Shortly before the presidential election, Thrace took a squad of 20 raptors back to Caprica to rescue [[Samuel Anders|Anders]] and the [[Resistance]], as she promised. With permission from the president and the admiral, and with the aid of [[Sharon Valerii (Caprica copy)|Caprica-Sharon]], Starbuck and Helo were able to return to Caprica with the loss of only two Raptors. The group soon met up with Anders, who reported that their HQ had been destroyed and Thrace's timing was just perfect. A squad of Centurions fired on their position shortly thereafter. ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I]])

While waiting it out under Cylon attack, Starbuck and Anders agreed that they would kill each other rather than go back to one of the [[Farms]]. When the attack stopped, Thrace, naturally suspicious, ordered the group to "fight 'em until we can't." But the Centurions had vanished. Brother [[Cavil]] then appeared and praised the [[Lords of Kobol|Gods]] over the Cylons' abandonment of Caprica. Starbuck wasn't really surprised to discover he was a Cylon upon their return to the Fleet.

Starbuck and Anders proceeded to get drunk, and received a disastrous visitation from Apollo while doing it. This apparently led to a rift between the two comrades, such that Kara thought Lee wouldn't provide antibiotics for Anders, even a year later (either that, or something happened between the two during the year that was jumped).

Thrace married Anders, and the two moved to [[New Caprica City]]. Kara was deeply distressed when he developed pneumonia, and did her best to care for him. Life on New Caprica tempered Thrace, and she often behaved in ways Starbuck never would have. She was horrified by the sudden arrival of hundreds of Cylon ships in the sky of New Caprica. As squad after squad of Centurions marched through the city streets, a few of Galactica's former crew gathered near Thrace, looking to her for guidance. Kara responded the only way she knew how: "We fight 'em 'till we can't." ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]])

==Notes==

According to SkyOne, Thrace was born on Picon but raised all over the Twelve Colonies. Her mother was a Sergeant Major in the Colonial [[Marines]] and a decorated veteran of the [[First Cylon War]]. Her father was named Dreilide, and is described as a "frustrated" musician.

Here is SkyOne's summary of Thrace:

:''Starbuck is Commander Adama's best pilot, as well as flight partner and closest comrade to Apollo, Adama's estranged son.''

:''Kara Thrace was born on the Picon Colony, but raised all over the 12 Colonies. Her childhood was spent bouncing from one military outpost to another. Her mother was a sergeant major in the Colonial Marines, and a decorated veteran of the Cylon war. Her father, Dreilide, was a frustrated musician.''

:''Kara was a tough minded-child who dreamed of playing Pyramid in the big leagues someday. her mother wanted her to pursue a career in the military...Kara did not want this, so signed up to the academy to pursue her love of sports.''

:''Her future as a sports star ended when she was seriously injured, shattering her right knee. Most surgeons felt her knee would never be the same. Depressed, Kara applied to various post-graduate posts, but doubted she would be accepted. To her surprise, she scored the highest academic record for a flight-training exam. Kara soon discovered a love of flying.''

:''She would be a pilot for life - unless she got kicked out first, as Kara hated taking orders and military protocol. If that wasn't enough, Kara drank and gambled too much. While her academic and personal life was not first class, it couldn't be disputed that she was destined to fly.''

:''Kara served her first tour aboard the Battlestar Triton, but she was not admired by all, and soon found herself shipped back to where she started.''

:''This is where she met Zak Adama, and fell in love. Tragedy struck when Zak failed a key flight test and his plane crashed. Kara was devastated. She then spent two years on the Galactica - concentrating on her flying.''

As this information has not appeared on the Scifi.com series website or on screen, it has yet to be confirmed.

On the Sci-Fi Channel's preview for season 2.5 (US), Katee Sackoff is quoted as saying that Starbuck is "the best Viper pilot...EVER."
=== Additional Notes ===

*[[Wikipedia:Thrace|Thrace]] was a region in south-eastern Europe that was heavily influenced by the ancient Greeks and was eventually conquered by [[Wikipedia:Philip_II_of_Macedonia|Phillip II of Macedonia]]. Thracians were considered by most to be the most ferocious fighters and were often highly paid mercenaries for Greek kings.

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Battlestar Wiki:Podcast Transcripts

2006-05-28T20:11:31Z

Strangefreeworld: /* Sacrifice */

{{project|Podcast Transcripts}}

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This project is meant to coordinate and standardize the transcription of [[Ronald D. Moore]]'s freely available episode podcasts. Our goal is to produce a searchable text repository for purposes of citation. At this time, we will only be transcribing freely available podcasts from [http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/ SciFi.com], not additonal DVD commentaries. Ron D. Moore and David Eick have recorded commentary tracks for the [[Miniseries]] (also including director Michael Rymer), "[[33]]", "[[Bastille Day]]", "[[Act of Contrition]]", and "[[You Can't Go Home Again]]". However, they have not been put up online for free but are only available in the Season 1 DVD set. Therefore, transcripts of these are not provided here, though relevant quotes may be found sourced in certain articles on Battlestar Wiki.

This project is a daughter of the [[Battlestar Wiki:Citation Jihad|Citation Jihad]].

==Standards==

===Namespace===
Podcast transcripts should be named after the episode to which they correspond with the addition of the (podcast) namespace, for example, [[Podcast:Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]].

===Structure===
Begin each podcast article with the template:
:<nowiki>{{podcast|author=YourNameHere|emailAuthor2=|suffix=|additionalCopyright=}}</nowiki>

Use first-level headings to divide Teaser and Act breaks. Make each heading an offsite link to the appropriate podcast segment, e.g.

==[<nowiki>http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/109/bsg_ep109_1of5.mp3</nowiki> Teaser]==

Try to break up RDMs comments into paragraphs along topical lines.

For those podcasts that are not [[Ronald D. Moore]]'s, please refer to {{tl|podcastother}} for transcribing other podcasts.

===Transcription===
RDM frequently uses "uh", "um" and "y'know" as discourse particles. For readabilities sake, try to exclude these where they interrupt the flow of an otherwise grammatical sentence.

Where RDM interrupts himself, end the last word of the first statement with an emdash. You may include whatever discourse particles he uses to introduce the next thought. For example:

"I think it's a very good movie, one that I always thought was a— y'know, prime for us to do a riff on."

Generally, you may ignore emphasis except where RDM's tone is critical to the interpretation of a statement (e.g. sarcasm).

===Links===
Where RDM mentions a BSG episode or character, link to our own article. Where he mentions a television show or actor which we do not have (or need) our own article for, offer a link to the corresponding page on IMDB. If another resource such as Wikipedia or Memory Alpha has more comprehensive information, you may link there at your discretion. To avoid overlinking, only link once per act break.

===Corrections===
Except for simple spelling errors, do not offer a "correction" without first having listened to the relevant portion of the recording. Always leave a comment on the talk page explaining your change.

==Checkins==
When you begin work on a transcription, place your name beside the segment you are working on. When you've completed and uploaded it, mark your name next to "Transcribed". Afterwards, it would be helpful for a second user to verify the transcription.
===Season 1 podcasts===
*[[Podcast:Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down|Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/109/bsg_ep109_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 20:52, 14 December 2005 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 11:46, 1 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/109/bsg_ep109_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 20:52, 14 December 2005 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 11:46, 1 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/109/bsg_ep109_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 23:54, 14 December 2005 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 11:46, 1 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/109/bsg_ep109_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 20:27, 15 December 2005 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 12:56, 1 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/109/bsg_ep109_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: [[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 00:38, 19 December 2005 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 12:56, 1 February 2006 (EST).)
*[[Podcast:The Hand of God|The Hand of God]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/110/bsg_ep110_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:strangefreeworld|strangefreeworld]] 17:12, 19 May 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 06:31, 22 May 2006 (CDT).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/110/bsg_ep110_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:strangefreeworld|strangefreeworld]] 21:21 24 May 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 07:33, 25 May 2006 (CDT).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/110/bsg_ep110_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:strangefreeworld|strangefreeworld]] 19:10 27 May 2006 (EST). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/110/bsg_ep110_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:strangefreeworld|strangefreeworld]] 19:22 27 May 2006 (EST). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/110/bsg_ep110_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Colonial Day|Colonial Day]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/111/bsg_ep111_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Misco|Misco]] 11:02, 15 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:25, 16 March 2006 (CST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/111/bsg_ep111_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/111/bsg_ep111_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/111/bsg_ep111_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/111/bsg_ep111_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I|Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/112/bsg_ep112_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Undc23|Undc23]] 23:38, 2 January 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 15:25, 1 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/112/bsg_ep112_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Undc23|Undc23]] 01:50, 3 January 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 15:25, 1 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/112/bsg_ep112_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:Undc23|Undc23]] 07:49, 4 January 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 09:23, 2 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/112/bsg_ep112_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:Undc23|Undc23]] 07:49, 4 January 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 09:42, 2 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/112/bsg_ep112_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: [[User:Undc23|Undc23]] 10:09, 1 February 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 09:59, 2 February 2006 (EST).)
*[[Podcast:Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II|Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/113/bsg_ep113_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/113/bsg_ep113_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/113/bsg_ep113_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/113/bsg_ep113_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/113/bsg_ep113_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)

===Season 2 podcasts===
*[[Podcast:Scattered|Scattered]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/201/bsg_ep201_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Huh?|Huh?]] 11:15, 23 May 2006 (CDT). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:14, 23 May 2006 (CDT).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/201/bsg_ep201_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/201/bsg_ep201_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/201/bsg_ep201_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/201/bsg_ep201_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Valley of Darkness|Valley of Darkness]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/202/bsg_ep202_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/202/bsg_ep202_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/202/bsg_ep202_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/202/bsg_ep202_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/202/bsg_ep202_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Resistance|Resistance]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/204/bsg_ep204_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/204/bsg_ep204_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/204/bsg_ep204_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/204/bsg_ep204_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/204/bsg_ep204_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:The Farm|The Farm]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/205/bsg_ep205_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/205/bsg_ep205_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/205/bsg_ep205_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/205/bsg_ep205_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/205/bsg_ep205_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Home, Part I|Home, Part I]] (with David Eick)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/206/bsg_ep206_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/206/bsg_ep206_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/206/bsg_ep206_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/206/bsg_ep206_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/206/bsg_ep206_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Home, Part II|Home, Part II]] (with David Eick)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/207/bsg_ep207_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/207/bsg_ep207_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/207/bsg_ep207_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/207/bsg_ep207_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/207/bsg_ep207_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Final Cut|Final Cut]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/208/bsg_ep208_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/208/bsg_ep208_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/208/bsg_ep208_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/208/bsg_ep208_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/208/bsg_ep208_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Flight of the Phoenix|Flight of the Phoenix]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/209/bsg_ep209_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Misco|Misco]] 19:58, 14 February 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 15:30, 14 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/209/bsg_ep209_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Misco|Misco]] 20:14, 14 February 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 22:52, 14 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/209/bsg_ep209_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:Misco|Misco]] 22:23, 14 February 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 23:10, 14 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/209/bsg_ep209_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:Misco|Misco]] 00:46, 15 February 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 09:57, 15 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/209/bsg_ep209_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: [[User:Misco|Misco]] 04:22, 15 February 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 10:50, 15 February 2006 (EST).)
*[[Podcast:Pegasus|Pegasus]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/210/bsg_ep210_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Ricimer|Ricimer]] 22:25, 14 December 2005 (EST). Verified: [[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 05:22, 15 December 2005 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/210/bsg_ep210_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 11:38, 21 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 21:58, 22 March 2006 (CST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/210/bsg_ep210_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 14:23, 30 March 2006 (CST). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/210/bsg_ep210_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:23, 11 April 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/210/bsg_ep210_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:35, 17 April 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Resurrection Ship, Part I|Resurrection Ship, Part I]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/211/bsg_ep211_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 14:25, 7 January 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Joe.Beaudoin|Joe Beaudoin]] 10:39, 8 January 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/211/bsg_ep211_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 21:46, 16 January 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 11:15, 1 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/211/bsg_ep211_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 20:21, 14 February 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 23:34, 14 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/211/bsg_ep211_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 22:13, 17 February 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 23:52, 18 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/211/bsg_ep211_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 16:02, 15 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 22:20, 16 March 2006 (CST).)
*[[Podcast:Resurrection Ship, Part II|Resurrection Ship, Part II]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/212/bsg_ep212_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/212/bsg_ep212_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/212/bsg_ep212_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/212/bsg_ep212_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/212/bsg_ep212_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Epiphanies|Epiphanies]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/213/bsg_ep213_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Misco|Misco]] 20:30, 15 February 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 09:24, 16 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/213/bsg_ep213_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Misco|Misco]] 06:23, 16 February 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 09:24, 16 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/213/bsg_ep213_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:Misco|Misco]] 07:24, 19 February 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 09:46, 20 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/213/bsg_ep213_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:Misco|Misco]] 09:50, 19 February 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 09:46, 20 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/213/bsg_ep213_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: [[User:Misco|Misco]] 16:33, 13 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 07:25, 14 March 2006 (CST).)
*[[Podcast:Black Market|Black Market]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/214/bsg_ep214_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/214/bsg_ep214_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/214/bsg_ep214_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/214/bsg_ep214_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/214/bsg_ep214_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Scar|Scar]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/215/bsg_ep215_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/215/bsg_ep215_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/215/bsg_ep215_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/215/bsg_ep215_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/215/bsg_ep215_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
====[[Podcast:Sacrifice|Sacrifice]]====
:*[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/216/bsg_ep216_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:14, 18 May 2006 (CDT). Verified: [[User:strangefreeworld|strangefreeworld]] 22:30, 27 May 2006 (EDT).)
:*[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/216/bsg_ep216_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 12:13, 24 May 2006 (CDT). Verified: [[User:strangefreeworld|strangefreeworld]] 16:11, 28 May 2006 (EDT).)
:*[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/216/bsg_ep216_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
:*[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/216/bsg_ep216_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
:*[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/216/bsg_ep216_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:The Captain's Hand|The Captain's Hand]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/217/bsg_ep217_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:28, 2 May 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/217/bsg_ep217_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 15:39, 3 May 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/217/bsg_ep217_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 11:59, 5 May 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/217/bsg_ep217_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 14:00, 8 May 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/217/bsg_ep217_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 15:32, 9 May 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Downloaded|Downloaded]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/218/bsg_ep218_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 00:00, 4 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 19:16, 5 March 2006 (CST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/218/bsg_ep218_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 01:06, 4 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 14:32, 6 March 2006 (CST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/218/bsg_ep218_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 01:37, 4 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:37, 7 March 2006 (CST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/218/bsg_ep218_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 09:50, 4 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 19:34, 8 March 2006 (CST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/218/bsg_ep218_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 11:01, 4 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:30, 9 March 2006 (CST).)
*[[Podcast:Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I|Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/219/bsg_ep219_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 08:30, 19 April 2006 (CDT). Verified: [[User:Shane|Shane]] ([[User_Talk:Shane|T]] - [[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]]) 11:30, 8 May 2006 (CDT).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/219/bsg_ep219_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 16:21, 19 April 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/219/bsg_ep219_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 11:20, 20 April 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/219/bsg_ep219_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 14:20, 21 April 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/219/bsg_ep219_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 10:31, 24 April 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II|Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/220/bsg_ep220_1of7.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 18:17, 11 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 14:00, 13 March 2006 (CST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/220/bsg_ep220_2of7.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 22:32, 14 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:11, 16 March 2006 (CST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/220/bsg_ep220_3of7.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 17:32, 19 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:21, 20 March 2006 (CST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/220/bsg_ep220_4of7.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 17:34, 8 April 2006 (CDT). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 11:37, 10 April 2006 (CDT).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/220/bsg_ep220_5of7.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/220/bsg_ep220_6of7.mp3 Act 5] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/220/bsg_ep220_7of7.mp3 Act 6] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)

== Test Checkin's ==

{{Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I Podcast}}

==Disputes==
Members of Battlestar Wiki with experience in acoustic phonetics are listed below. They may be able to help with pronunciation issues.

*[[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]]

[[Category: Podcasts]]

Battlestar Wiki:Podcast Transcripts

2006-05-28T02:30:28Z

Strangefreeworld: /* Sacrifice */

{{project|Podcast Transcripts}}

{{Projectimage|BSG WIKI Podcast.png}}
This project is meant to coordinate and standardize the transcription of [[Ronald D. Moore]]'s freely available episode podcasts. Our goal is to produce a searchable text repository for purposes of citation. At this time, we will only be transcribing freely available podcasts from [http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/ SciFi.com], not additonal DVD commentaries. Ron D. Moore and David Eick have recorded commentary tracks for the [[Miniseries]] (also including director Michael Rymer), "[[33]]", "[[Bastille Day]]", "[[Act of Contrition]]", and "[[You Can't Go Home Again]]". However, they have not been put up online for free but are only available in the Season 1 DVD set. Therefore, transcripts of these are not provided here, though relevant quotes may be found sourced in certain articles on Battlestar Wiki.

This project is a daughter of the [[Battlestar Wiki:Citation Jihad|Citation Jihad]].

==Standards==

===Namespace===
Podcast transcripts should be named after the episode to which they correspond with the addition of the (podcast) namespace, for example, [[Podcast:Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]].

===Structure===
Begin each podcast article with the template:
:<nowiki>{{podcast|author=YourNameHere|emailAuthor2=|suffix=|additionalCopyright=}}</nowiki>

Use first-level headings to divide Teaser and Act breaks. Make each heading an offsite link to the appropriate podcast segment, e.g.

==[<nowiki>http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/109/bsg_ep109_1of5.mp3</nowiki> Teaser]==

Try to break up RDMs comments into paragraphs along topical lines.

For those podcasts that are not [[Ronald D. Moore]]'s, please refer to {{tl|podcastother}} for transcribing other podcasts.

===Transcription===
RDM frequently uses "uh", "um" and "y'know" as discourse particles. For readabilities sake, try to exclude these where they interrupt the flow of an otherwise grammatical sentence.

Where RDM interrupts himself, end the last word of the first statement with an emdash. You may include whatever discourse particles he uses to introduce the next thought. For example:

"I think it's a very good movie, one that I always thought was a— y'know, prime for us to do a riff on."

Generally, you may ignore emphasis except where RDM's tone is critical to the interpretation of a statement (e.g. sarcasm).

===Links===
Where RDM mentions a BSG episode or character, link to our own article. Where he mentions a television show or actor which we do not have (or need) our own article for, offer a link to the corresponding page on IMDB. If another resource such as Wikipedia or Memory Alpha has more comprehensive information, you may link there at your discretion. To avoid overlinking, only link once per act break.

===Corrections===
Except for simple spelling errors, do not offer a "correction" without first having listened to the relevant portion of the recording. Always leave a comment on the talk page explaining your change.

==Checkins==
When you begin work on a transcription, place your name beside the segment you are working on. When you've completed and uploaded it, mark your name next to "Transcribed". Afterwards, it would be helpful for a second user to verify the transcription.
===Season 1 podcasts===
*[[Podcast:Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down|Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/109/bsg_ep109_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 20:52, 14 December 2005 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 11:46, 1 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/109/bsg_ep109_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 20:52, 14 December 2005 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 11:46, 1 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/109/bsg_ep109_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 23:54, 14 December 2005 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 11:46, 1 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/109/bsg_ep109_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 20:27, 15 December 2005 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 12:56, 1 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/109/bsg_ep109_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: [[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 00:38, 19 December 2005 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 12:56, 1 February 2006 (EST).)
*[[Podcast:The Hand of God|The Hand of God]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/110/bsg_ep110_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:strangefreeworld|strangefreeworld]] 17:12, 19 May 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 06:31, 22 May 2006 (CDT).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/110/bsg_ep110_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:strangefreeworld|strangefreeworld]] 21:21 24 May 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 07:33, 25 May 2006 (CDT).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/110/bsg_ep110_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:strangefreeworld|strangefreeworld]] 19:10 27 May 2006 (EST). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/110/bsg_ep110_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:strangefreeworld|strangefreeworld]] 19:22 27 May 2006 (EST). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/110/bsg_ep110_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Colonial Day|Colonial Day]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/111/bsg_ep111_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Misco|Misco]] 11:02, 15 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:25, 16 March 2006 (CST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/111/bsg_ep111_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/111/bsg_ep111_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/111/bsg_ep111_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/111/bsg_ep111_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I|Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/112/bsg_ep112_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Undc23|Undc23]] 23:38, 2 January 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 15:25, 1 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/112/bsg_ep112_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Undc23|Undc23]] 01:50, 3 January 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 15:25, 1 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/112/bsg_ep112_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:Undc23|Undc23]] 07:49, 4 January 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 09:23, 2 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/112/bsg_ep112_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:Undc23|Undc23]] 07:49, 4 January 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 09:42, 2 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/112/bsg_ep112_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: [[User:Undc23|Undc23]] 10:09, 1 February 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 09:59, 2 February 2006 (EST).)
*[[Podcast:Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II|Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/113/bsg_ep113_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/113/bsg_ep113_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/113/bsg_ep113_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/113/bsg_ep113_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/113/bsg_ep113_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)

===Season 2 podcasts===
*[[Podcast:Scattered|Scattered]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/201/bsg_ep201_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Huh?|Huh?]] 11:15, 23 May 2006 (CDT). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:14, 23 May 2006 (CDT).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/201/bsg_ep201_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/201/bsg_ep201_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/201/bsg_ep201_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/201/bsg_ep201_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Valley of Darkness|Valley of Darkness]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/202/bsg_ep202_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/202/bsg_ep202_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/202/bsg_ep202_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/202/bsg_ep202_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/202/bsg_ep202_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Resistance|Resistance]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/204/bsg_ep204_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/204/bsg_ep204_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/204/bsg_ep204_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/204/bsg_ep204_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/204/bsg_ep204_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:The Farm|The Farm]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/205/bsg_ep205_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/205/bsg_ep205_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/205/bsg_ep205_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/205/bsg_ep205_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/205/bsg_ep205_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Home, Part I|Home, Part I]] (with David Eick)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/206/bsg_ep206_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/206/bsg_ep206_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/206/bsg_ep206_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/206/bsg_ep206_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/206/bsg_ep206_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Home, Part II|Home, Part II]] (with David Eick)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/207/bsg_ep207_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/207/bsg_ep207_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/207/bsg_ep207_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/207/bsg_ep207_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/207/bsg_ep207_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Final Cut|Final Cut]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/208/bsg_ep208_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/208/bsg_ep208_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/208/bsg_ep208_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/208/bsg_ep208_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/208/bsg_ep208_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Flight of the Phoenix|Flight of the Phoenix]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/209/bsg_ep209_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Misco|Misco]] 19:58, 14 February 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 15:30, 14 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/209/bsg_ep209_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Misco|Misco]] 20:14, 14 February 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 22:52, 14 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/209/bsg_ep209_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:Misco|Misco]] 22:23, 14 February 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 23:10, 14 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/209/bsg_ep209_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:Misco|Misco]] 00:46, 15 February 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 09:57, 15 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/209/bsg_ep209_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: [[User:Misco|Misco]] 04:22, 15 February 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 10:50, 15 February 2006 (EST).)
*[[Podcast:Pegasus|Pegasus]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/210/bsg_ep210_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Ricimer|Ricimer]] 22:25, 14 December 2005 (EST). Verified: [[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 05:22, 15 December 2005 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/210/bsg_ep210_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 11:38, 21 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 21:58, 22 March 2006 (CST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/210/bsg_ep210_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 14:23, 30 March 2006 (CST). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/210/bsg_ep210_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:23, 11 April 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/210/bsg_ep210_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:35, 17 April 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Resurrection Ship, Part I|Resurrection Ship, Part I]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/211/bsg_ep211_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 14:25, 7 January 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Joe.Beaudoin|Joe Beaudoin]] 10:39, 8 January 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/211/bsg_ep211_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 21:46, 16 January 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 11:15, 1 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/211/bsg_ep211_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 20:21, 14 February 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 23:34, 14 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/211/bsg_ep211_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 22:13, 17 February 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 23:52, 18 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/211/bsg_ep211_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 16:02, 15 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 22:20, 16 March 2006 (CST).)
*[[Podcast:Resurrection Ship, Part II|Resurrection Ship, Part II]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/212/bsg_ep212_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/212/bsg_ep212_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/212/bsg_ep212_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/212/bsg_ep212_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/212/bsg_ep212_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Epiphanies|Epiphanies]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/213/bsg_ep213_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Misco|Misco]] 20:30, 15 February 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 09:24, 16 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/213/bsg_ep213_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Misco|Misco]] 06:23, 16 February 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 09:24, 16 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/213/bsg_ep213_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:Misco|Misco]] 07:24, 19 February 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 09:46, 20 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/213/bsg_ep213_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:Misco|Misco]] 09:50, 19 February 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 09:46, 20 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/213/bsg_ep213_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: [[User:Misco|Misco]] 16:33, 13 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 07:25, 14 March 2006 (CST).)
*[[Podcast:Black Market|Black Market]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/214/bsg_ep214_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/214/bsg_ep214_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/214/bsg_ep214_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/214/bsg_ep214_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/214/bsg_ep214_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Scar|Scar]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/215/bsg_ep215_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/215/bsg_ep215_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/215/bsg_ep215_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/215/bsg_ep215_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/215/bsg_ep215_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
====[[Podcast:Sacrifice|Sacrifice]]====
:*[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/216/bsg_ep216_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:14, 18 May 2006 (CDT). Verified: [[User:strangefreeworld|strangefreeworld]] 22:30, 27 May 2006 (EDT).)
:*[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/216/bsg_ep216_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 12:13, 24 May 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
:*[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/216/bsg_ep216_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
:*[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/216/bsg_ep216_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
:*[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/216/bsg_ep216_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:The Captain's Hand|The Captain's Hand]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/217/bsg_ep217_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:28, 2 May 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/217/bsg_ep217_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 15:39, 3 May 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/217/bsg_ep217_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 11:59, 5 May 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/217/bsg_ep217_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 14:00, 8 May 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/217/bsg_ep217_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 15:32, 9 May 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Downloaded|Downloaded]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/218/bsg_ep218_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 00:00, 4 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 19:16, 5 March 2006 (CST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/218/bsg_ep218_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 01:06, 4 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 14:32, 6 March 2006 (CST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/218/bsg_ep218_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 01:37, 4 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:37, 7 March 2006 (CST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/218/bsg_ep218_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 09:50, 4 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 19:34, 8 March 2006 (CST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/218/bsg_ep218_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 11:01, 4 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:30, 9 March 2006 (CST).)
*[[Podcast:Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I|Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/219/bsg_ep219_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 08:30, 19 April 2006 (CDT). Verified: [[User:Shane|Shane]] ([[User_Talk:Shane|T]] - [[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]]) 11:30, 8 May 2006 (CDT).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/219/bsg_ep219_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 16:21, 19 April 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/219/bsg_ep219_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 11:20, 20 April 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/219/bsg_ep219_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 14:20, 21 April 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/219/bsg_ep219_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 10:31, 24 April 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II|Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/220/bsg_ep220_1of7.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 18:17, 11 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 14:00, 13 March 2006 (CST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/220/bsg_ep220_2of7.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 22:32, 14 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:11, 16 March 2006 (CST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/220/bsg_ep220_3of7.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 17:32, 19 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:21, 20 March 2006 (CST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/220/bsg_ep220_4of7.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 17:34, 8 April 2006 (CDT). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 11:37, 10 April 2006 (CDT).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/220/bsg_ep220_5of7.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/220/bsg_ep220_6of7.mp3 Act 5] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/220/bsg_ep220_7of7.mp3 Act 6] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)

== Test Checkin's ==

{{Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I Podcast}}

==Disputes==
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[[Category: Podcasts]]

Podcast:Sacrifice

2006-05-28T02:24:45Z

Strangefreeworld:

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==[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/216/bsg_ep216_1of5.mp3 Teaser]==

Hello, and welcome to the podcast of episode sixteen, I believe, this is now ep- "[[Sacrifice]]". [[Season 2 (2005-06)|Season two]]. I'm [[Ronald D. Moore]], executive producer and developer of the new [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Battlestar Galactica series]]. This is also an episode I had certain issues with. It's not my favorite episode of the season. I don't openly dislike it, though, you may be relieved to know, like I did openly dislike "[[Black Market]]" a couple of weeks ago. My problem with "Black Market" was that I felt that it- ultimately fell short of what the show is about in terms of what type of story we were trying to tell and that ultimately it was just to conventional- for what we we're- what I think the show does best. This- this- this show, I think, works in parts. I think it has a lot of interesting ideas in it. I think there's specific places where I think we stumble and don't quite deliver on all- on all that the show can be, and I'll try to identify those as we go through. But o- overall I think this show works, and there's things about it that I think are quite nice. Maybe a word is- is worth mentioning here about just the nature of these podcasts. I was unaware about how widely these podcasts are listened to within the- the show itself. A lot of people that work on the show do listen to these podcasts, as well as executives, and so on, and it's worth reiterating that flaws and things that I try to point out in these episodes, things that I'm not satisfied with or are not happy with, ultimately re- redown to me. I'm the- I'm the showrunner. (Chuckles.) I'm the executive producer. A lot of these things are decisions I either made myself or decisions I was aware of and signed off on, so none of this is really meant as criticism to my- to my team, who I value immensely.

Okay. Here in the open. In the scripted version and in the original cut we opened this sequence with an open scene. That is, a scene that takes you someplace other than what the main characters and you're just starting in mid-story, and that was the sequence, this sequence, right here that you're watching with [[Sesha Abinell|Sesha]]'s [[Ray Abinell|husband]]. It opened with him working in that corridor, finishing up some repair duty, getting on the phone, telling his wife that he was going to be home very soon, and then suddenly the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]] attack breaks out and he's- the ship, the [[Greenleaf|freighter]] is damage and he's pulled out into space. It di- it wasn't that satisfying an opening, and I think it's always been a problematic aspect of this particular episode for, for again, what are script reasons. Here's a guy who we kill in the opening moments who we have no- no connection to and the only thing that really matters about him is that he's her husband, in that it drives her obsession and radicalization through the course of the episode. But, the- the pro- it doesn't quite work because it happens so quickly, you don't know who he is, you don't really care, then he's gone, and then we're- we're building a lot on your identi- identification with her emotional trauma, trying to make that the basis for what drives her into taking these extreme actions. And it doesn't quite work. We- we salvage it a little bit by concentrating more on [[Dana Delany|Dana]] in those opening shots where you're really more with her and you realize that she has a backstory, that somebody mattered to her, that died, but you're really a little bit more with that character than you are with him. And that helps a little bit. It's still not a perfect- a perfect solution. We probably should have tried to work in a different- either a different motivation for her or really gotten a little bit more in depth to what that relationship was about, made us care a little bit more for- to what she lost.

'Course the biggest thing about this episode is the death of [[Billy Keikeya|Billy]], and the exit of [[Paul Campbell]] from our main cast. And, Paul's been there since the very beginning. Established in the [[miniseries]]. And he's been one of my favorite [[:Category:Characters|characters]] and he's certainly one of my favorite [[:Category:Cast|actors]] and one of the favorite cast members. Paul's very popular, very well liked. Was really an important part of the family. And the decision to "off" him was not made lightly. It really came more from a sense on our part that we- that Paul really is a good actor. Paul is getting a lot of opportunities. Paul was being offered lead roles on other shows and in features and we were trying to accomodate that and trying to make that work out as best we can to give him those opportunities, but yet, we were holding him on the show in a- in what is a supporting role, and doesn't work all the time, sometimes he doesn't work at all, sometimes the days are limited. And ultimately we- we got to a place where we felt that it was mutually benefecial to everybody to- to let Paul go. To let him go do- to let him pursue a career that he- he richly deserves, and it wasn't really fair to just keep him tethered to us. It came into a s- I dealt with a similar situation on "[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0201391/ Roswell]", a show that I worked on a few years ago. And one of the- one of the characters there was being offered, [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004988/ Colin Hanks], who was one of our characters on "Roswell", was getting of- he was being allowed to go do things like "[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0185906/ Band of Brothers]", and he had a movie that feature that he wanted to go do and we let him out. It was causing scheduling problems. We kept coming up with excuses for why the character would be gone for big stretches of time and it became so cumbersome that ultimately we- we made the same decision. We'll let him go and kill off the character. And he recurred, in flashbacks and as a ghost and that sort of thing in "Roswell." And something similar happened here. With Billy, because of the nature of the series, there was really no logical way for him to just stop being [[Laura Roslin|Laura]]'s assistant. It didn't make sense for the character to suddenly leave her and say, take up residence on some other ship and pursue some other life that would have required a whole, pretty global shift in who the character was and what he was all about, and it just didn't feel right that he would just pack his bags and say, "I'm done, Ms- Madame President. I'm gonna go be a farmer on the [[Botanical Cruiser|farm ship]]." Or something like that. It just- it just wasn't plausible. It didn't ring true and it just felt better to go this route.

This is- this bar is not a location. This was actually constructed by our- our art department. It was- it's a nice big bar. It was a pretty expensive big set for us. Initially, we had talked about playing out this entire drama in a [[Atmospheric shuttle|shuttle]]. A shuttle was going to be moving from [[Galactica (RDM)|''Galactica'']] to some- to ''[[Cloud 9]]'' and along the way, in mid-journey, Sesha and her cohorts took over the shuttle and held everyone on there hostage. And we were going to play the whole show in that. It was much more claustrophobic environment. It was going to be a- more intense, that you were inside the shuttle for the whole time. And that just became awkward. It became awkward in terms of production because we don't have a shuttle sitting around, so you had to construct a shuttle from scratch. Believe it or not it's easier to make a big bar than it is a whole functional shuttle with all the control surfaces or c- control panels, etc. and technology and make it big enough that we would be able to put all the players in it and had had a couple of different rooms. You had to have a cockpit. You had to have a passenger area. You had to have places where people could believably be trying to assault and get in. And it was just far more compli- complex, and so we opted to put it in a bar on ''Cloud 9''.

==[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/216/bsg_ep216_2of5.mp3 Act 1]==

Apologize for the noise of the "beep" that happens. I've- I've been seeing some stuff [http://mboard.scifi.com/postlist.php?Cat=&Board=BattlestarGalactica online] that people are- don't like the beep at the end acts. I can't tell you what- can't tell you anything about that except that's what happens whenever I trigger the little recording device and tell it where the end- where the beginning of an act is. So, I don't know what to do about that.

I like this little- this little bit here with [[Ellen Tigh|Ellen]] and- and [[Lee Adama|Lee]] revisiting their established relationship that we set up back in "[[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]" in- in [[Season 1 (2004-05)|season one]] where she was coming on to him. I like the- the notion that Ellen goes off to ''[[Cloud 9]]'' periodically. And she- she probably gets laid and she cats around. She does all these things. And [[Saul Tigh|Tigh]] knows about it. Tigh is aware that she goes off and does all these things and I-. There's a line that was in the show, at one point, and it might even still be in the show. Frankly, to be hon- completely honest I've kind of forgotten whether this particular line is still in the show or not, but there was a line from Tigh where he- it was clear that he was aware that she went over to ''Cloud 9''. I think we did lose it ultimately, now I think about it. But it was essentially, he was in a conversation with [[William Adama|Adama]] and he made some- some allusion to the fact that she's over there and it gives him a break. (Chuckles.) And he was aware- he knows who he married. He knows what she's about. They've achieved a certain equilibrium in their relationship that she gets to be who she is, he is who he is, and they've just learned to work it out. That that's part of the nature of the marriage.

This whole section, of course, deals with the triangle that we've been setting up bit by bit of Lee, [[Anastasia Dualla|Dualla]], and [[Billy Keikeya|Billy]], and that eventually it was going to come to a head. There was a l- there were various drafts and outlines that had Lee and Dualla actually sleeping together before they went over to ''Cloud 9''. That seemed to push it too far. It seemed like then they'd advanced the relationship to a point that we really didn't want them to. We shot some pieces that implied that there was a more intimate relationship before they got over to ''Cloud 9''. Those were cut, as well, to make- in terms of just protecting Lee and Dualla and making them feel like, okay, this was a burgeoning relationship. Something's that beginning to happen but has not quite been consummated and gone to that point yet.

This is all created in the editing room. It's a- pieces of material that's telling you silent bits. This- this is the kind of stuff that is not quite playing as well as it should in- in big sections of the e- episode, which has to do with just how it was shot and where the eyelines are, and all that. We- we struggled quite a bit trying to make particular looks and moments play. Like, for instance, right there. There used to be a look back from Lee to Dualla where he kind of signaled her to look at the ba- look at the bad guys and as he went into the- as he went into the bathroom and then she looked around and was trying to figure out what was going on. The- the- the looks never quite matched and it wasn't clear that he was sending her a signal. So th- so that element didn't quite play for us.

See what's interesting to me in this episode is the implication that [[Sesha Abinell|Sesha]] and people like her are out there in the fleet. That there are multiple points of view about the reality that they're all living in. That not everyone in the [[The Fleet (RDM)|rag-tag fleet]] knows everything that you, the audience, do. They don't see the people on [[Galactica (RDM)|''Galactica'']] react week in, week out. They don't really understand the reasons why Adama and [[Laura Roslin|Laura]] make the decisions they do. They just hear whatever their version of the press tells them and there's also a fair amount of rumor and conspiracy theory that floats around the fleet and it was always an interesting idea that there were s- going to be people out there in the fleet who had come to their own conclusions about what was really going on. That they would talk amongst themselves. The civilians would talk amongst themselves, and come up with different theories of- of what really happened and- that- why [[Sharon Valerii (Caprica copy)|Sharon]] would still be alive and what that meant. Clearly there are people now- the episode says that clearly there are- there are some people who believe that military's been completely hoodwinked by this, that they're being fooled, that they're being taken over. I think it's interesting that it comes up later that Sesha- Sesha tells Adama, "It's obvious that the [[Colonial Ministry of Defense|Defense Ministry]] was infiltrated," and that there- there was a [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]]- that there was a Cylon- what's the word I'm looking for- there was a Cylon spy or colla- oh Cylon in- collaborator, sorry, bluh. There's a Cylon collaborator somewhere in the military's midst that allowed the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|original attack on the Colonies]] to take place. And, of course, she's right. That man's name is [[Gaius Baltar]]. Something that Adama is not aware of, and even Laura only has an impression that he was with a Cylon that she can't prove and she doesn't- even she can't quite connect all the dots to say that really, that was the chain of events that led to the destruction of their entire civilization. So it's interesting that that piece of insight was going to come from without ''Galactica''. That it was going to come from people that were out there coming to their own conclusions, and that those people could be radicalized by certain events, and that one of those kinds of events is- would be the loss of [[Ray Abinell|yet another loved one]] during a Cylon attack would stoke the fire, would propel Sesha into a place where she desperately needed revenge or she desperately needed to strike back and- and the knowledge that there was probably another Cylon alive and well and aboard ''Galactica'' would be enough to send her and her cohorts over the edge, to put themselves out on the line, to take a dramatic step and bring this to a close. It's an interesting formulation. You're saying these people, these terrorists or hostage-takers, or whatever you want to term them, take this radical step, take this violent, dangerous step of taking people hostage, threatening to kill them unless they get the Cylon prisoner and execute the prisoner, so it's an- what is their motivation? And do we approve of their motivation? Do we the audience at least understand where they're coming from and can we sympathize with their point of view. I- I- I hope the answer's yes. I think you get a sense in the show that, while her method is clearly over the line, that she's operating from a place that's not- yeah, she says it right there, "We're not criminals." She's not coming from a place of "Give me my own ship," or "Give me power," or "Give me money," or anything like that or even, "Free a political prisoner," or something. She's essentially saying that, "You're all being fooled. You don't know that you're being fooled. It's dangerous. We're all going to die and I have to take this step because you're too stupid to take it." I- I was always intrigued by that as a motivation. I think it- it's in the show. I don't know that it quite punches through as strongly as it should and I think it's probably a factor of not quite getting inside Sesha's head enough, and maybe we never- we didn't quite spend enough time with her inside the- inside the- the bar and doing more ch- detailed character work with her. I think that we are saved in large measure by the fact that it's [[Dana Delany]] playing this role. Dana blur- brings an innate intelligence and a presence to the show that lifts the character and you start to believe ever- listen to everything she says much more closely, and she's not just- I don't want to say a bad actor- it's a- a lesser actor would just speak these words and you wouldn't feel any connection or really care. I think the fact that we have Dana delivering this kind of material helps the episode immeasurably and it was a real boon to us all to have her on the show. Beware the beep. It's coming.

God (RDM)

2006-05-27T23:55:24Z

Strangefreeworld: /* Judeo-Christian References */

==In the Reimagined Series==

[[Image:Bscap059.jpg|thumb|"I am an instrument of God" --[[Gaius Baltar|Baltar]] in [[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]] Credit: SkyOne]]

In [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|the reimagined series of Battlestar Galactica]], [[Leoben Conoy|Leoben]] and [[Miniseries]]/internal [[Number Six|Six]] espouse monotheistic views. Leoben's "we are all God" philosophy is similar to [[Wikipedia:Gnosticism|Gnosticism]]. Although the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Colonials]] worship the [[Lords of Kobol]], even Colonials occasionally say singular "God," though it's often just as exclamations.

To avoid bias, quotes will do most of the talking here.

===Monotheistic References===

* "Oh, my God," "Thank God," or similar exclamations -- [[William Adama]] in the [[Miniseries]], mother of baby in the [[Miniseries]], [[Gaius Baltar]] in the [[Miniseries]], the CAG in the [[Miniseries]], Man on comlink to [[Laura Roslin]] in the [[Miniseries]], [[Sharon Valerii (Galactica copy)|Sharon Valerii]] in [[Water]]

* "That, and God wanted me to help you." -- [[Number Six]], [[Miniseries]]

* "We decided to play god - create life. When that life turned against us we comforted ourselves in the knowledge that it really wasn't our fault, not really. You cannot play god then wash your hands of the things that you've created." -- [[William Adama]], [[Miniseries]]

* "Maybe the Cylons are God's retribution for our many sins. What if God decided he made a mistake and he decided to give souls to another creature, like the Cylons?" -- [[Leoben Conoy]], [[Miniseries]]

* "God didn't create the Cylons. Man did. And I'm pretty sure we didn't include a soul in the programming." -- [[William Adama]], [[Miniseries]]

* "And what I want most of all is for you to love me... Don't you understand? God is love." - internal [[Number Six|Six]], [[Miniseries]]

* "God has a plan for you, Gaius. He has a plan for everything and everyone. Gaius - are you even listening to me?" -- internal [[Number Six|Six]], [[33]]

* "Procreation is one of God's commandments." -- internal [[Number Six|Six]], [[33]]

* "God is watching out for you, Gaius." -- internal [[Number Six|Six]], [[33]]

* "A connection, maybe, but not God. There is no God, or gods, singular or plural. There are no large, invisible men (or women, for that matter) in the sky, taking a personal interest in the fortunes of Gaius Baltar." -- [[Gaius Baltar]], [[33]]

* "Be careful. That which God gives He can also take away." -- internal [[Number Six|Six]], [[33]]

* "It's God's punishment for your lack of faith." -- internal [[Number Six|Six]], [[33]]

* "God's got nothing to do with this." -- [[Gaius Baltar]], [[33]]

* "It's God's choice. He wants you to repent." -- internal [[Number Six|Six]], [[33]]

* "Pilots call me "Starbuck", you may refer to me as 'God'." -- [[Kara Thrace]], [[Act of Contrition]]

* "God answers everyone's prayers." -- [[Leoben Conoy]], [[Flesh and Bone]]

* "God, you stink. Can we get some air in here? Between you and the humidity..." -- [[Leoben Conoy]] to [[Kara Thrace]], [[Flesh and Bone]]

* "I was right. See, our faiths are similar but I look to one God, not to many." -- [[Leoben Conoy]], [[Flesh and Bone]]

* "To know the face of God is to know madness. I see the universe. I see the patterns. I see the foreshadowing that precedes every moment of every day. It's all there, I see it and you don't." -- [[Leoben Conoy|Leoben]], [[Flesh and Bone]]

* "I am more than you could ever imagine. I am God." -- [[Leoben Conoy]], [[Flesh and Bone]]

* "I'm sorry, you're God? Wow... nice to meet ya. That's good, that's good. We'll give you a couple of minutes for that." -- [[Kara Thrace]], [[Flesh and Bone]]

* "It's funny, isn't it? We're all God, Starbuck, all of us. I see the love that binds all living things together. ... I know that God loved you more than all other living creatures and you repaid his divine love with sin, with hate, corruption, evil. So then he decided to create the Cylons." -- [[Leoben Conoy]], [[Flesh and Bone]]

* "It's your chance to find out if you're really God or just a bunch of circuits with a bad haircut. ... Somebody's programmed you with a fairy tale of God and streams and life ever after but, somewhere in that hard drive that you call a brain is a beeping message: 'Error, error, does not compute. I don't have a soul, I have software. If I die, I'm gone.'" -- [[Kara Thrace]], [[Flesh and Bone]]

* "And this time, your role...you have to deliver my soul unto God. Do it for me. It's your destiny, and mine." -- [[Leoben Conoy]], [[Flesh and Bone]]

* "He's not afraid to die. He's just afraid that his soul won't make it to God." -- [[Kara Thrace]], [[Flesh and Bone]]

* "Oh good, I suppose God doesn't want me to destroy the base, because he's the Cylon god, right?", [[Gaius Baltar]], [[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]

* "God doesn't take sides. He only wants your love. Open your heart to him and he'll show you the way." -- internal [[Number Six|Six]], [[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]

* "He didn't speak to me. God didn't speak to me. So I was totally lying. I just picked that spot at random." -- [[Gaius Baltar]], [[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]

* "He doesn't always speak in words, Gaius." -- internal [[Number Six|Six]], [[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]

* "Are you telling me that God guided my finger to that target for some... arcane scriptural purpose?" -- [[Gaius Baltar]], [[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]

* "You are part of God's plan, Gaius." -- internal [[Number Six|Six]], [[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]

* "So God wanted me to destroy the Cylon base." -- [[Gaius Baltar]], [[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]

* "You did well. You gave yourself over to Him." -- internal [[Number Six|Six]], [[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]

* "Yes, suppose I did. Yes, there's-- there's really no other logical explanation for it. I was - [Six: ''Am.''] - I am an instrument of God." -- [[Gaius Baltar]], [[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]

* "I know you're very close with Adama -- and I know he's a good man, and I know he's had to make some very hard choices... Lord knows I have." -- [[Helena Cain]], [[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]

* "Tens of thousands of Cylons are about to die, tens of thousands, Gaius! God will not forgive this sin!" -- [[Number Six]], [[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]

* "Do you think God will forgive us?" -- [[Gaius Baltar]], [[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]

* "God forgives all." -- [[Gina]], [[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]

* "God loves me!" -- [[Number Three]], [[Downloaded]]



===Judeo-Christian References===
[[Image:Baltar in crucifixion pose in ep13.jpg|thumb|Baltar in [[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]] Credit: SkyOne]]

The [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|reimagined series of Battlestar Galactica]] contains few references to [[Wikipedia:Judeo-Christian|Judeo-Christian]] concepts such as [[Wikipedia:Jesus|Jesus]] and [[Wikipedia:Satan|Satan]].

* "Jesus." -- Colonel Tigh, [[Miniseries]] {{ref|1}}

* "I was... [Six: Am.] I am..." -- [[Gaius Baltar|Baltar]], [[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]] (full quote in previous section)

* "Come on, Jim. [[Wallace Gray]] is no 'prince of darkness.'" -- Playa, [[Colonial Day]]

* "God is love" -- [[Number Six|Six]], [[Miniseries]], 1 John 4:16

The "I am" statement in [[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]] is noteworthy, because of the self-description God gives to Moses in Exodus, [[Wikipedia:I am that I am|"I am that I am"]], and also Jesus has a series of "I am" statements in the Bible. The Bible contains over 300 "I am" statements. The Hebrew name for God, [[Wikipedia:Yahweh|Yahweh]], is derived from the Hebrew word for "I am" or "to be".

As one of [[Numerology#"33"|mysteries of 33]], [[33]] is not only the title of an episode but also the commonly reported age for Jesus Christ when he was crucified, so this is another possible reference to Christ.

Finally, "Christ" itself is from the Greek "Χριστός," or "Christos," which means "messiah" in Greek. In the reimagined series, the [[Pythia|Pythian Prophecies]] tell of a messianic figure who will lead them to Earth.

Another reference to a Messianic figure in the Bible is [[Wikipedia:Moses|Moses]], who led the Israelites out of the Egyptian captivity into the promised land. He actually did not live to lead the Israelites into the promised land because he doubted the water coming from the stone (Numbers 20:12). This has a more direct tie to prophetic events in the reimagined series, that the messianic figure will not see Earth ([[Hand of God]]).

==In the Original Series==

In the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]], [[Lucifer]] was a name of an [[IL-series]] [[Cylon]]. ''Lucifer'' is also a name for [[Wikipedia:Satan|Satan]].

[[Iblis|Count Iblis]] is a [[Wikipedia:Satan|Satan]]-like figure, and [[Wikipedia:Iblis|Iblis]] is the Satan of Islam.

[[Wikipedia:Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints|The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] was reportedly an inspiration for some of the Original Series, as series creator [[Glen A. Larson]] is a member of this faith.

==Official statements==

*In an [http://www.battlestargalactica.com/outside_docs/bg_outdoc0050.htm interview with BattlestarGalactica.com on December 28th, 2005] RDM was asked about fan speculation that the Cylon God may be Count Iblis in the Re-imagined Series:

: Q: "There's speculation that Count Iblis' counterpart in this series is the as-yet-unseen Cylon God. Is there any possibility that elements of the original series "War of the Gods" storyline may weave themselves into the new series?

:RDM: While I have thought of incorporating the Count Iblis/Ship of Lights mythology from the original show into the series, I've pretty much decided not to go there for now. The theological construct we've been establishing seems more interesting to me at this point and I don't think Iblis will be part of the current show."

*At the official [http://www.ausxip.com/conventions/2006burbank/taipo-conlucy.html Xena 2006 Convention], Lucy Lawless stated that:
{{spoiltext|(They) turned around and asked her "Do you want to play [[God]]?" There is a character who sets herself up as God, and Lucy would likely play her. Her theory is that there's nowhere to go after playing Xena but to playing God! But ''none of this is a done deal'', she cautions, because they're still working out the logistics}}

*RDM noted in his [[podcast]] of "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]", that the original ending of Season One called for actor [[Dirk Benedict]] to appear to [[Gaius Baltar|Baltar]] on [[Kobol]] and introduce himself as "God". Numerous prohibiting factors prevented this storyline from making it on camera, chief among them was Moore's confessed inabillity to write a feasible conclusion to the surprise revalation at the time. Another mitigating factor which influenced Moore to drop the idea was that when he revealed his idea to the other writers, the entire writing team found the idea simply revolting, so Moore acquiesced.

* In an interview at beliefnet.com (http://www.beliefnet.com/story/166/story_16650_3.html) RDM makes the following statement in response to the question:
:Q: " In “Galactica 1980,” we actually meet the “Imperious Commander” of the Cylons who turns out to be the Devil in the guise of a humanoid. Will we ever meet the maker of the Cylons in this version?

:A: I think if we ever found an answer to why the Cylons have a god or who the god is--you know, the guy steps out from behind the curtain--I think you’d be disappointed. They’re in an interesting place in that their faith is as legitimate as the human faith. Human beings have souls given by the gods, and Cylons have a soul given by their one true god and that has to be just as valid. That means there is a plan for their soul and something for them after they die too. It’s a fundamental element of their faith. "

==Notes==

* {{note|1}} According to [[Ronald D. Moore|RDM]], the "Jesus" line was an [[Wikipedia:ad-lib|ad-lib]] by [[Michael Hogan]]. Therefore, it should not be taken as a serious reference to [[Wikipedia:Christianity|Christianity]].

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Podcast:Epiphanies

2006-05-27T23:25:25Z

Strangefreeworld:

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==[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/213/bsg_ep213_1of5.mp3 Teaser]==

Hello, my name is [[Ronald D. Moore]] and welcome to the podcast for episode thirteen "[[Epiphanies]]". I'm the executive producer and creator of the- or developer of the new [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Battlestar Galactica]].

"Epiphanies" essentially is our biggest [[Laura Roslin]] show to date. We'd been talking about doing an episode like this since way back in the first season. A lot of the roots of this episode come out of things that were in the backstory of the character ever since the [[miniseries|Miniseries]], namely we wanted to deal with things like who she was before the attack, what her life was like and getting a glimpse into what she was like as Secretary of Education before she became [[Government|President]].

Some of the elements in this episode were actually, I think, suggested by [[Mary McDonnell]]. In early conversations with Mary on the script of the mini-series she started talking about [[Richard Adar|President Adar]], there was a line in the mini-series where she said- she was talking about how she got into politics and how she didn't really wanna be a politician but she had worked for Adar and that he was the kind of man that you just couldn't say no to. And Mary took that to mean that he was a [[Wikipedia:Bill_Clinton|Clinton]]-esque figure that you couldn't say no to, and of course being a Clinton-esque figure it also raised the possibility that perhaps there was something more between the two of them than just the professional relationship. And that stuck in everybody's heads and whenever we would talk about Adar throughout the course of the first season, we always jokingly talked about the fact that she had an affair with him and then it became something more than a joke and we started to seriously consider the possibility that maybe she had had an affair with the President. And that that would be an interesting insight into the character of Laura Roslin, and I'll talk more about that as we go along.

This opening sequence is meant to convey the notion that she's dying obviously, she's coming into [[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]] and she's flashing back to what is essentially her last day on [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]]. This is the day that she found out that she had cancer, this is the day of the attack, all this is sort of- all these flashbacks are gonna be things that we never showed you in the mini-series and in fact, in truth, we didn't really think about them during the mini-series. When the mini-series was shot and edited together the implication was that she left directly from the doctor's office that you saw a few moments ago and went out and got on the transport that becomes [[Colonial One]] and then took off. But there's no reason to assume that she didn't have time to do anything else, so as we were constructing this episode it all seemed to be about the last day on Caprica and we went at the episode from that angle and then there was a continuity error that I realised much, much later, that I'll get to later that changed those plans. But the initial impulse was, okay, lets play this sequence as Laura is dying and she's thinking back to the day when it all began, when she learned that she first had cancer and when the Presidency fell on her head and everything began and ended on that particular day.

It seemed right at this point in the life of the series to finally do the episode that really dealt with her illness, that really dealt with the fact that Laura had been diagnosed with terminal breast cancer and that the President was slipping away from us. It had been alluded to all throughout the first season, this season we have been very direct about it, we had said that she wasn't gonna make it, the doctor had given her a very short term- a very short time in which to live and then indeed in the last weeks episode- at the end of the episode you saw her having trouble just getting up and physically walking out of Colonial One after her meeting with [[William Adama|Adama]]. And it just felt like this had been simmering along for a long time and that we had to deal with it at some point, we had to really face the fact, as do all the characters, that Laura had what was a terminal illness and that it had to come to some kind of a head.

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The other story that's very strong in this episode, of course, is the story of the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]] sympathisers and the resistance movement within the fleet. This was an interesting notion that was posited in the writer's room that [[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'s been out on the run for a long time, they've had a lot of people in all these ships and we hadn't played anything that really dealt with various factionalisation among the people or different points of view or people who might have believed for one reason or another that the military was wrong, that they had all been betrayed and that maybe they had made bad decisions, that maybe there was a way for them to get along with their enemy. So we went at this from the approach of- okay, well let's go with a radicalised element of that, of the peace movement as it were and say that, essentially, they're starting to sabotage [[The Fleet (RDM)|the fleet]] itself. They're starting to get into places and do things to actively promote an agenda that is designed to force the [[Government|Colonial government]] and the military to stop what they're doing, to stop making this all about war and to try and deal with their enemy, to try to negotiate with them, to try to achieve some kind of peace.

What was interesting to me was, there's- it's so antithetical to this kind of show, to do this story- to make the peaceniks as it were- to make the the [[Demand Peace|peace movement]] the antagonists, to make them the villains. I mean a lot of the show feels very liberal in its output, there's a lot of political statements within the show that deal with the [[Wikipedia:War_on_terror|War on Terror]] that you could take to mean as criticisms of the [[Wikipedia:Right-wing_politics|Right]]. And- but the show is not meant to be a polemic, the show is not a direct allegory to all the events that take place in the [[Wikipedia:United_states|United States]]. And within the world of Galactica it felt like the people that were advocating a peaceful resolution to the Cylon conflict and were actively trying to stop the military from achieving that goal would be the antagonists and it was interesting to spin the expectations of the show and the political structure of the show in such a way that I think I you come out of this episode wondering, what is the point of view of the show, what is the show really trying to say, what does it think in terms of its politics? And the answer is, the show is fairly agnostic, the show occasionally tilts you in one direction or another but overall the show is meant to make you think, it is meant to make you question things, it's meant to keep you off-balance and unsettled more than anything else and this is a good example of playing different political parts of the spectrum throughout this episode.

And finally we get to meet [[Richard Adar|President Adar]]. It's surprising how little things like that giant seal behind the President's desk quickly and easily convey the notion of this being the equivalent of the [[Wikipedia:Oval_office|Oval Office]]. That you didn't need a big matte shot, for instance, of the President's grand palace or whatever, he's just come in the room, there's the big seal, here's the man, it reads much, much quicker than a lot of belaboured set-up to who the guy is and what he's doing.

Again, you can see that [[Laura Roslin|Laura's]] in the same outfit that she wore on the day of the [[miniseries|Miniseries]] and that we're all kinda playing in that same key, that we're- all the flashbacks were originally meant to be on the same day.

Now, this whole notion, was always in the original story; that Laura, as she approaches the end of her life, was realising that she had to make certain decisions now because she was going to be gone and that whatever they were left with- whatever she left them in the fleet with after she was dead was gonna be what they'd have to live with. And Laura's decision here to abort the Cylon baby is a pretty tough decision but I think she felt, rightly so, that she could not leave this decision in the hands of President [[Gaius Baltar]] and so she just moved to the end. She's realised, 'Time is short, I've gotta make this call, I won't take the risk, I'm gonna do this while I still can'. It's a tough-minded decision, it's certainly in line with all the other decisions that Laura has made and I think it speaks to the larger character movement of Laura Roslin since we saw her in the mini-series; that she was the Secretary of Education, a somewhat apolitical job if anything at that level can ever be apolitical, and yet she was then thrust into this position where she had literally the fate of the human race on her shoulders. And I always thought that that experience of taking a person who had never had ambitions to become President, who had no greater ambitions on power, who had a series of fairly safe beliefs, a fairly locked in political ideology of her own that we assume is something along the liberal end of the spectrum, put her into the Presidency, put all these decisions on her desk and force her to deal with the consequences of her actions and say, 'Oh by the way if you make a mistake the entire human race might be wiped out'. That that would change that person and that that person would start to make tougher and tougher decisions and some of those decisions might be questionable and she might start making choices that she would have been appalled at only a short times before. And certainly just aborting this child is one of them but it's a logical extension of where she's been, once she starts chucking people out of airlocks because she's decided that that's how you deal with Cylons, this is simply the next step along that road.

That's one of the nicer transitions that [[IMDB:nm0362738|Rod Hardy]] came up with to suddenly posit; here's [[Number Six|Six]]. You'll notice that there's a little line here about a few weeks have passed, he hasn't seen her since- one of the things we were dealing with in the aftermath of the [[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]] / Resurrection trilogy, was he connects with [[Gina]] over on [[Pegasus (RDM)|''Pegasus'']] and then there was a draft of the script of Resurrection Ship where as he embraced Gina- something we ultimately didn't do- but he was going to embrace Gina at the end of that scene and Six was going to literally vanish in front of our eyes- something we've never done, she always disappears and appears in the cuts. And we were going to have her literally disappear and she was going to stay away from Baltar, she was not going to appear to him for many- several episodes and what happened is, as we got into breaking those stories and working on those subsequent scripts frankly I found Baltar less interesting without Six. She was such a part of his psychological make-up, the two characters were so firmly entrenched in my mind, and in the audience's mind I believe, that it was awkward and strange to write a Baltar without a Six. Even though you had Gina right in front of him, even though she was a living breathing... well, Cylon, but she was a person in all but name. Even with her right in front of him you missed, I missed, this interaction, the imp on his shoulder, the demon that tortures him and loves him alternately and so much of his psychology was wrapped up in her that we just decided it wasn't really working very well and so we went back in and put Six back into these episodes. But there was some awkwardness, I mean we'd set certain things in motion with Gina that then had to be moved over to the side, and then this little sequence of her appearing to him and hadn't seen him- establishing he hadn't seen her in a while was something that had to be slipped into dialogue at the last moment. This too is a nice little transition that Rod came up with, to leave him holding his own tie in front of people in the corridor and James does such great work with that sort of stuff.

This is a nice, powerful, very small scene of [[William Adama|Adama]] telling [[Karl Agathon|Helo]] that his child is going to be aborted but it has one of my favorite moments, in the season actually- is a very small beat coming up here, there's a beat where at the end of the sequence you'll see that Adama says, 'Dismissed' and Helo, for just a moment, brings himself up to attention and you can see the look on his face transitions from anger and rebellion into respect and then he moves out. And it's not grudging respect and it's not arrogant and it's not all, 'I'll see you in hell Adama', it's just- it's honest and it's a very subtle thing that the actor pulls off here and I just wanted to draw it to your attention. Because it's little textures and pieces like that that really flesh out all these characters in ways that you can't really anticipate on the page and you would fail if you tried and you really are relying on the actor's instincts and it's right here- well not quite here. You see the anger and emotion on his face, spits that in Adama's face, 'Dismissed', comes to attention, honest respect, walks out the door. That's great, that is a great, great moment.

Now we're into the whole- the plot about the sabotage, it's happening. Some of the inspiration for this comes out of things in [[Wikipedia:World_War_Two|World War Two]] and other conflicts where there were- there was forced labour that the [[Wikipedia:Nazi|Nazis]] used during the Second World War and there were people who working within the ammunition factories of [[Wikipedia:Nazi_Germany|Nazi Germany]] that managed to sabotage shells and managed to do things that would not get caught in the manufacturing process that then, ultimately, would blow up on the battlefield much, much later.

This is an interesting thing, this is a behind-the-scenes sort of shot as it were; where did they get their ammunition from? Well they must be making it somewhere and this is where they make it. There was a lot of discussion on a technical level about what are the bullets that we shoot out? Do they have powder? Are they rail guns? A lot of that got tedious and difficult to deal with because we kept wanting to make this work and we opted to not talk about it directly. The visual, where he breaks open that shell casing in the earlier part, it leads you to believe that they're traditional powder and lead projectiles, we never talk about it, you are free to believe what you wanna believe about the weapons of Galactica and how they work. Which I think is always the better way to go; to preserve the dramatic aspects of the scenes and move the tech stuff off-camera as best you can.

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I love all these little pamphlets that the art department came up with that they're passing out, again the [[Demand Peace|Peace Now]] pamphlets. And it was really interesting to play this side of the political spectrum- I know I talked about this at the beginning- but there was something interesting about making the people who were demanding peace, who were struggling for peace, who were literally fighting for peace- to make them the quasi-villains of the piece, to make them the antagonists, the problem, the thing that had to be dealt with because I think there is a tendency, certainly in writer's rooms that I've been associated with, we all tend to be on the liberal side of the spectrum. Not exclusively so, I've certainly met a lot of conservatives in my tenure as a writer and as a producer and they do exist but by-and-large writer's rooms tend towards the liberal side, at least in my experience. And it was an interesting exercise and it was I think a healthy exercise to move against your own political instincts and make the positions that you might personally be advocating in a similar circumstance the antagonistic ones. Now- which is not to say that I harbor hopes of going out and sabotaging the military myself but certainly to make the people who are advocating peace, the people that are asking for a better way, the people who are asking for understanding and dialogue, to make them villains is an interesting thing and it was an interesting exercise for us to go through and I think it keeps the show honest. The show should be about these characters in their situation and how they would really react given their circumstances rather than us trying to push a certain point of view.

This scene always- the scenes with the union representative always kinda make me chuckle just a little bit when I watch the show because he is the teacher's union representative and yet the teachers are out there burning things down and rioting and heads are getting cracked. I mean my father was a- my parents were both teachers and I've been in the edu- I know a lot about the educational system because I grew up in it in essence and teachers are not really known for going out and knocking heads together out on the picket line but it's interesting to say that that was the world of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]].

I like [[William Adama|Adama's]] attitude here, I mean again it probably cuts against [[Edward James Olmos|Eddie's]] own politics too, but Adama is not cutting this guy any slack, he's not trying to reason with this guy, he's not coming in to engage him in his arguments or hear him out in the way that say [[Wikipedia:Jean_Luc_Picard|Picard]] would, he's like, 'You're a problem and you better knock it off asshole or we're gonna- really coming down on you'.

It's interesting to say that in the Colonial fleet even at this stage, once weeks and months have gone by and you've been on the run and you've suffered through these things natural factionalisation is going to occur, cleavages are gonna occur. There is no monolithic body out there in the civilian world that all thinks the same thing all the time. There are going to always be different viewpoints, there are gonna be radicalised elements of those viewpoints and it's nice to realistically say, yes, that's going to happen even within the rag-tag fleet. Those human- the human drive to object, to dissent, to say, 'No, I know better than you do' is always going to occur.

The reference to the space-walk kept going in and out of this cut because we kept putting the space-walk in and out of the previous cut as I mentioned in the previous podcast. We weren't entirely certain we were going to be able to carve "[[Resurrection Ship, Part I|Resurrection Ship]]" into two distinct episodes so we kept playing with whether we took a space-walk at all and as a consequence this reference kept coming in and out. Ultimately though, the next episode "[[Black Market]]" deals so much with [[Lee Adama|Lee]] and so much with the consequences of his ejection sequence or space-walk, we really had to go back and put that stuff in.

This is a great moment in the show; it's [[Sharon Valerii|Sharon's]] reaction here when she comes- when she starts smashing her head into the glass and leaves the blood stains. I mean there's something so raw and naked about her, it's really a tribute to [[Grace Park]] and what she's done with this character. She's been willing- she's been pretty fearless in what she's been willing to do and try and nakedly show emotion and really go into places that I don't know that the character or the actress ever thought that they would go before. And [[Karl Agathon|Helo]] just watches. That's great, that's just so shocking, it's just it's so disturbing. It's such a- it's not a human impulse to run into the wall and smash your head into it, it's almost like a- it's very literally like an animal in a cage and there's something so discomfiting about that. And then in come the guards. I don't know- the whole sequence really it just makes the hair on the back of your neck stand up.

One of the things I like about this episode in particular is that it's juggling so many balls in the air I'm very fond of the show when it juggles multiple plotlines and characters and is constantly moving from one thing to the other, much in the way that the season one finale Kobol's Last Gleaming parts [[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I|one]] and [[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II|two]], you were cutting back and forth between so many elements. And I really like that style of storytelling and so this episode, in term of its structure is one of my favorite because you are being yanked from scene to scene to scene it's like a fast moving train that you just can't get ahead of.

And yes if you look closely there are a few bodies that come flying out of that old ship, there's a couple- ooh there's a good one right there.

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I love that, I love that [[William Adama|Adama]] just throttles this guy, just grabs him. It's interesting casting too, I wasn't in on this casting session but I like the fact that we cast somebody who does kinda look like they're a professor at [[Wikipedia:University_of_California%2C_Berkeley|Berkeley]]- it's really- look at that tie! That's just such a great little beat there when [[Saul Tigh|Tigh]] looks down and he sees Adama choking him there's like this weird smile that comes over the Colonel's face, he's just such a psychotic. [laughs]

This little sequence was always an important moment in the show, the tradition of [[Gaius Baltar|Baltar]] taking out the- getting the letter that [[Laura Roslin|Laura]] has left for him as a tradition- [[Billy Keikeya|Billy]] says is a tradition that President's leave this letter for their successor. It's actually something that does happen, they talk about this every inauguration, so ever four year this story's in the media, a new President comes into the [[Wikipedia:White_House|White House]] and in the [[Wikipedia:Oval_Office|Oval Office]] there is traditionally a letter left in one of the drawers from the previous occupant and who knows what it says and I don't know that any of the contents have ever been shown but it's like some tradition for the US Presidency and so I just adopted it for ours as well.

Now interestingly enough what the letter said did change. Initially it was going to be a letter that was actually quite praising- actually praised Baltar quite a bit; told him a lot of good things about himself, tried to buck him up for the job at hand and expressed Laura's faith in his ability to handle what he was doing and we opted not to go that way because he was going to be touched by that and that was going to turn- prompt him to help save her. It was more interesting in this version and I can't remember who's idea it was, it wasn't mine, it was either [[David Eick|David Eick's]] or it may have been a network note that the letter actually takes him down a peg and angers him but he reads it only after he's already saved her.

Now this is the first time that we really get to set up the fact that [[Gina]] is some place else, at the end of [[Resurrection Ship, Part II|Resurrection Ship]] he promises to take her some place safe, we kept talking about the fact that she was going to go to the "brothel" over on [[''Cloud 9'']] and that there would be a "[[wikipedia:Brothel|brothel]]" over on ''Cloud 9'' and actually in the next episode you will discover that there is prostitution going on over on at ''Cloud 9'' and it's perfectly legal. And there was something evocative about that idea, oh there's the brothel and how perfect that is for Gina and she could work out a lot of her angst and anger and somehow we ended up here. That ''Cloud 9'', we had established, has these state rooms because it was a luxury liner and we never quite got around to the "brothel" aspect of it and this is one of the areas that I'm not as in love with in this episode and in subsequent episodes to be honest. This is an aspect of the show that I think we shot a little bit wide of the mark here, there was something dark and intriguing and moody about Gina and the "brothel" and now it just feels like she's over in this upscale hotel hanging out. And this is a push okay, I put up my hands right now and say this is a push that nobody recognises her with the glasses, it's the [[Wikipedia:Clark_Kent|Clark Kent]] disguise of the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]]. I don't know what to tell ya, you talk yourself into believing some things will work when you're in prep on them and when you're doing them and then you see them in dailies and then in the cut and you're like, 'What the hell was I thinking?'. And this is one of those, 'What the hell was I thinking?' moments because I don't know what the hell I was thinking, somehow I talked myself into believing that no-one would recognise Gina if we just did her hair differently and put glasses on her but you'd have to be a moron not to realise that that's the Cylon. But that's one of the buys you have to do and one of the things you have to just go with because that's the way we shot it.

I do like the emotional content of the scene here that basically- we had initially written that Baltar and she were going to be getting it on in this whole sequence but [[Tricia Helfer|Trish]] had pointed out that she just thought that her reaction to being tortured and gang-raped was gonna put her in the place where she was not really going to be open to any kind of physical contact and was gonna be rejecting him. And that already seemed like a much more interesting place to put Gaius Baltar who is all about sensuality and surely one of the reasons that he was interested in her at all was the physical and so to not even be able to consummate that relationship was certainly a source of frustration and to put him in an interesting character place. And it was also interesting to see that Gina's agenda is different than [[Number Six|Six's]] agenda. Gina is all about Baltar taking over, Baltar getting control of [[The Fleet (RDM)|the fleet]] and not- and destroying humanity and not so much about the baby or anything else, she's much more one-note in terms of what she's after because she does come from a very specific backstory.

I like the fact that we've been seeing Baltar doodle a little bit, he's already been- as a scientist he's already, there's a part of him that is intrigued by the puzzle of Laura's condition and what would happen to her cancer and isn't there a possible way of solving it. And that almost without willing it to be so he solves her problem.

Here's the moment when we realise that Laura is having an affair with [[Richard Adar|Adar]]. We wrote various versions of this as well in both story and script, sometimes we had them in a hotel room, sometimes we showed them waking up from an assignation and then we dropped it all and went back-and-forth and there was a lot of discussion about it. There was a lot of debate about well, how does it make her look? What do we think about Laura? Do we think she's slept her way to the position? Do we think that she's a bad person because she's having an affair with him? We'd opted ultimately to write it this way because this presents the fact of the affair without any of the context of the affair, without knowing why these two are drawn together, what they feel about each other in a real sense. All we know is that it happened because again it's Laura's memories, Laura's flashback, she's not going over the history of the affair, she's remembering the things that happened at the end.

And it's interesting to see that- how much Laura does model her Presidency on Adar's, that even here at the end when she's not- when she's realizing that she's been betrayed on some level by him, he's not the man she thought he was on some level. She does respect him still, respects the strength of the man, respects the fact that he held the nation together as it were.

And just a technical point, obviously the traditional American system, a President could ask for the resignation of his [[Wikipedia:United_States_Cabinet|Cabinet Secretary]] and it would be expected to be delivered and we're just saying in the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]] world that it's not that simple. For all we know it's a position that is somewhat more quasi-independent from the Presidency etc. etc. I think it's easy enough to fill in a rationalisation for why she would be able to fight him for her job, or intend to fight him for her job, because as we know she never came back.

I like this, this I like the fact- saying that the fleet itself was on the death-watch for Laura, that everyone in the cast was really concerned and that yeah, it's the President, I think that everyone would be hanging on those bulletins like we all do when one of the national leaders or a national figure is dying, there's always that sense of waiting for the news to come in. And there's something interesting- this was all created in editorial, the editors and the director put together this idea of them coming for [[Sharon Valerii|Sharon]] wordlessly with just playing the same music that was scoring the sequence where we're learning about Laura's death. And you're so still involved with Laura's imminent death that this sequence takes on a completely different tone and subtext to it than it did when you played it straight ahead and it was just them coming for her. It was a very inspired move on the part of the editors.

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And now we get into the final sequence we should talk a little bit about why we decided to "cure" [[Laura Roslin|Laura]]'s cancer at all. It was something I initially thought I was going to run as long as humanly possible, possibly to the end of the series and that her condition would never get better and that she would just eventually deteriorate. That became less and less satisfying as time went on, she was an important figure in the show and the truth of playing her illness meant that she had to get physically worse and worse and worse and be on her back and taking whatever their equivalent of chemotherapy is and surgeries and it just meant we were inevitably going to sideline the character to the point where she became a hospital figure and I just didn't wanna do that to the show. And yet I didn't wanna just wave a wand and have it go away so we came up with this route which seemed to- which came out of the writer's room I didn't come up with this- I believe it was [[imdb:nm1093194|Anne Cofell]] our staff writer who came up with this, I wouldn't swear to that but I think so- and this notion that something from the [[Hera|Cylon child]] can cure Laura and that the discovery is made by [[Gaius Baltar|Baltar]] who is about to become President and Baltar sabotages his own Presidency by figuring out the key to Laura's survival. I thought that- I was really intrigued by the way the puzzle pieces fit and it didn't feel like deux ex machina and it didn't feel unerred, it felt like a somewhat logical conclusion of several long-running storylines. So you may differ, that's fair, but to me I like the fact that it feels like a natural coming together for several different plot threads.

Another interesting thing is we always talked about this as being- we were going to use unborn Cylon baby [[wikipedia:Stem_cells|stem cells]], it was always going to be the stem cells that saved her for obvious reasons; it's more provocative, it capitilises on current day controversy, it seemed an interesting way to go but as we developed the script further we discovered there were just too many technical problems with it being the stem cells literally. That first of all, how do you get the stem cells out without killing the child, that led us onto a whole- surgeries and operating and complicated medical procedures and a lot more tech talk than I was willing to deal with and so ultimately it became y'know what just the ability to say the words 'stemcells' in a show was completely outweighed by the need to get through this section quicker and more efficient and get to the meat of the drama. The show is not a whole debate about stem cell research, the show is about Laura Roslin and Baltar and the competing interests of the two. And so it doesn't really matter, this is as techy as we get on this show; here's some pictures, Baltar is saying, 'one picture has red, one picture has white', 'what's going on?', 'well this is good'. And we move on because I just don't think it m- you care, I know I don't care and I don't think a large part of the audience cares about all the technical details of why the Cylon baby's blood is going to help cure the cancer. I think what matters is that it does and where it comes from and how you execute it. It is worth noting that it's certainly possible that Laura's cancer can come back, it's certainly possible that like so many cancer patients she could be clear one day and then a few weeks or months down the line she could find that the disease is back. I think that taking the cancer away from Laura also provides us with an ability to question her role as the prophet, because if the prophecies are correct a dying leader will lead them to the promised land and if Laura's no longer dying maybe she's not the leader anymore and that was an intriguing possibility as well that only came about much later in the show because at the beginning of the show we didn't have any of this prophet stuff.

Ah yes the unsettling needle shot. It's amazing how it's the little things that really actually make you uncomfortable. Somehow you can see people getting blown away and heads flying across the room and blood smattering on the walls and nine times out of ten the audience shrugs and goes 'yeah? moving on'. Put a needle in somebody's arm in extreme close-up and you can feel the uncomfortable tension spread throughout the room, 'how long do we have to look at the needle?'

Gotta love Doctor [[Cottle]]. Gotta love a doctor who just says 'well maybe it's just her time'.

And what's up with Baltar? Why is he driven to do this? Is he so afraid of the Presidency that he's willing to do anything, even cure this woman of cancer, in order to avoid it? Is he just not ready for it? What is it? And I think it's intriguing that at some level he ran away from it.

Now this is where we get into the continuity thing. If you really look back at the [[Miniseries]] Laura could definitely have done all this on the same day before she went to ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'', she could have left this scene- she gets done with this scene and goes to the President's office in the chronology and the she could have easily gotten on the plane after that but Baltar and [[Number Six|Six]] on the day of the attack are actually back at Baltar's house so that can not be the same day. Which was a problem but we get out of it by never actually directly saying in the show that it is all the same day. The way all the flashbacks play out you'll see that there is no reference to this being the same day so it's not clear at what point all those events happened and so we got out of the problem by skirting around the issue, she saw these people, she heard she had cancer and at some point she saw Baltar and Six making out in the marketplace and only now does she realise- does she call up that cognizant memory of seeing Baltar and Six together and realising, 'oh my God he was involved with a [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]]'. But what can she do about it? It's a memory, it's a memory flash, it's a memory that came out, a memory she only remembers under drugs, under this treatment. Is it true? She certainly believes it's true but could she convince anybody else that it's true? Probably not.

Cancer's gone. For now. [evil laugh] Because why would I wanna give up a perfectly good way of torturing a character?

It's a very moving episode I find, I find whenever I watch it I'm always moved by Laura, I'm always moved by [[Mary McDonnell|Mary]]'s performance, I always completely believe that she's suffering the way she suffers and fighting against it. It all seems very true. There's an emotional truth to everything that Mary does but there's a particular emotional truth in this episode. Where so many times in television you'll be doing the show about some character who's in a hospital bed suffering from something or other and you never quite buy it, it always seems a little too easy and they always seem like they're made up a little too well and they never seem like they're really lying in those beds suffering the way so many people actually do suffer. And this time no, this time I totally buy it, I'm with Mary on the whole journey. I think it was even Mary's idea- I wouldn't swear to this- but I think it was even Mary's idea that she was wheeled in here, that she was in the wheelchair.

'...and toss you out an airlock.' Again, like I said earlier, initially we were going to have a very different idea of what the letter actually said but now it plays much more deliciously. He's done this, he doesn't have to worry about being President, he's sort of a hero in everybody's eyes, he's feeling good about himself and then there's that letter. And when the letter just takes him apart piece by piece, it's the look on his face that is unbelievable, he just can't believe it. And then I believe the final action of the show, then I believe- there's the nuke, the nuke is sitting right there on the shelf- then I believe the final piece that he gives the nuclear weapon to the [[Demand Peace|Cylon sympathisers]]. And he does so partly out of pique, partly out of simple rage at being hoodwinked, out of simple anger at having been affronted by Laura, this woman who he just saved, and to discover what she really meant and part of it is driven by Six and her agenda and [[Gina]]'s agenda and buying into the Cylon agenda which is also moving him further along the darker aspect of the show. Look at the look on his face. Look at him. [laughs] She just really didn't believe he was good enough, just really didn't believe he was up to it, and that really pisses him off.

It was interesting- or not interesting- it was fun to finally pay off the nuclear weapon back in season one when Six tells him to get that nuclear weapon she says it in such a way that you feel like there's- something is going to come of that and it always nagged at us that we didn't have the end of that, we didn't have the beat that told you why the nuclear weapon was given to Baltar in the first place. We didn't feel like- we didn't like the feeling that it was just a dangling plot thread that was never going to pay off and it was just such a moment of relief when we found the true pay-off for it. When he gives it to the Cylon sympathisers here- to Gina I should say- when he gives it to Gina here it sets up the place where the nuke does finally get paid off and that will come in the final episode of season two. You will see how we actually do set up and use the nuke and you could say that it was in a way that Six wanted him to because it certainly helps the Cylons when it gets used.

Meanwhile, back at the brothel... thank God she has those [[wikipedia:Clark_Kent|Clark Kent]] glasses on else he'd be scared right now.

This was tricky to make sure that this was read, it was hard to get the nuke to read as a nuke, we had to do those flashbacks, we had to talk about it a bit. I'm not entirely certain that we ever licked it so that when he opens this case at the very end you are a little bit like- you have to think about it for a second which is not a great thing you want the last shot of the show to really slap you in the face and send you on your way. I think there's a little bit of going 'what was that, was that the nuke?' you're not entirely certain but I think it's close enough, sometimes you have to settle for close enough and I think it's close enough and it does work in the final analysis.

And again this is one of my favorites. I really like- for all the little things I don't care for in the episode- overall I just love the fact that all these plot lines are chugging along as handily as they are and that you really do feel like you've gone on a hell of a ride over the course of one hour and that we've moved so many stories forward and we've done so many things that it's really a satisfying journey and I think it just opens you up and make you want more.

See you can see the radiation symbols but they don't quite sell it. There you go that's a little better.

So that's it, that's the end of the podcast for [[Epiphanies]] episode thirteen of season two, thank you for listening and next time we talk about this will be for [[Black Market]] episode fourteen. Thank you and good night.

Battlestar Wiki:Podcast Transcripts

2006-05-27T23:20:58Z

Strangefreeworld: /* Season 1 podcasts */

{{project|Podcast Transcripts}}

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This project is meant to coordinate and standardize the transcription of [[Ronald D. Moore]]'s freely available episode podcasts. Our goal is to produce a searchable text repository for purposes of citation. At this time, we will only be transcribing freely available podcasts from [http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/ SciFi.com], not additonal DVD commentaries. Ron D. Moore and David Eick have recorded commentary tracks for the [[Miniseries]] (also including director Michael Rymer), "[[33]]", "[[Bastille Day]]", "[[Act of Contrition]]", and "[[You Can't Go Home Again]]". However, they have not been put up online for free but are only available in the Season 1 DVD set. Therefore, transcripts of these are not provided here, though relevant quotes may be found sourced in certain articles on Battlestar Wiki.

This project is a daughter of the [[Battlestar Wiki:Citation Jihad|Citation Jihad]].

==Standards==

===Namespace===
Podcast transcripts should be named after the episode to which they correspond with the addition of the (podcast) namespace, for example, [[Podcast:Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]].

===Structure===
Begin each podcast article with the template:
:<nowiki>{{podcast|author=YourNameHere|emailAuthor2=|suffix=|additionalCopyright=}}</nowiki>

Use first-level headings to divide Teaser and Act breaks. Make each heading an offsite link to the appropriate podcast segment, e.g.

==[<nowiki>http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/109/bsg_ep109_1of5.mp3</nowiki> Teaser]==

Try to break up RDMs comments into paragraphs along topical lines.

For those podcasts that are not [[Ronald D. Moore]]'s, please refer to {{tl|podcastother}} for transcribing other podcasts.

===Transcription===
RDM frequently uses "uh", "um" and "y'know" as discourse particles. For readabilities sake, try to exclude these where they interrupt the flow of an otherwise grammatical sentence.

Where RDM interrupts himself, end the last word of the first statement with an emdash. You may include whatever discourse particles he uses to introduce the next thought. For example:

"I think it's a very good movie, one that I always thought was a— y'know, prime for us to do a riff on."

Generally, you may ignore emphasis except where RDM's tone is critical to the interpretation of a statement (e.g. sarcasm).

===Links===
Where RDM mentions a BSG episode or character, link to our own article. Where he mentions a television show or actor which we do not have (or need) our own article for, offer a link to the corresponding page on IMDB. If another resource such as Wikipedia or Memory Alpha has more comprehensive information, you may link there at your discretion. To avoid overlinking, only link once per act break.

===Corrections===
Except for simple spelling errors, do not offer a "correction" without first having listened to the relevant portion of the recording. Always leave a comment on the talk page explaining your change.

==Checkins==
When you begin work on a transcription, place your name beside the segment you are working on. When you've completed and uploaded it, mark your name next to "Transcribed". Afterwards, it would be helpful for a second user to verify the transcription.
===Season 1 podcasts===
*[[Podcast:Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down|Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/109/bsg_ep109_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 20:52, 14 December 2005 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 11:46, 1 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/109/bsg_ep109_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 20:52, 14 December 2005 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 11:46, 1 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/109/bsg_ep109_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 23:54, 14 December 2005 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 11:46, 1 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/109/bsg_ep109_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 20:27, 15 December 2005 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 12:56, 1 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/109/bsg_ep109_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: [[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 00:38, 19 December 2005 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 12:56, 1 February 2006 (EST).)
*[[Podcast:The Hand of God|The Hand of God]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/110/bsg_ep110_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:strangefreeworld|strangefreeworld]] 17:12, 19 May 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 06:31, 22 May 2006 (CDT).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/110/bsg_ep110_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:strangefreeworld|strangefreeworld]] 21:21 24 May 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 07:33, 25 May 2006 (CDT).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/110/bsg_ep110_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:strangefreeworld|strangefreeworld]] 19:10 27 May 2006 (EST). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/110/bsg_ep110_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:strangefreeworld|strangefreeworld]] 19:22 27 May 2006 (EST). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/110/bsg_ep110_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Colonial Day|Colonial Day]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/111/bsg_ep111_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Misco|Misco]] 11:02, 15 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:25, 16 March 2006 (CST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/111/bsg_ep111_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/111/bsg_ep111_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/111/bsg_ep111_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/111/bsg_ep111_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I|Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/112/bsg_ep112_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Undc23|Undc23]] 23:38, 2 January 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 15:25, 1 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/112/bsg_ep112_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Undc23|Undc23]] 01:50, 3 January 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 15:25, 1 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/112/bsg_ep112_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:Undc23|Undc23]] 07:49, 4 January 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 09:23, 2 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/112/bsg_ep112_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:Undc23|Undc23]] 07:49, 4 January 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 09:42, 2 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/112/bsg_ep112_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: [[User:Undc23|Undc23]] 10:09, 1 February 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 09:59, 2 February 2006 (EST).)
*[[Podcast:Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II|Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/113/bsg_ep113_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/113/bsg_ep113_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/113/bsg_ep113_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/113/bsg_ep113_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/113/bsg_ep113_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)

===Season 2 podcasts===
*[[Podcast:Scattered|Scattered]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/201/bsg_ep201_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Huh?|Huh?]] 11:15, 23 May 2006 (CDT). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:14, 23 May 2006 (CDT).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/201/bsg_ep201_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/201/bsg_ep201_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/201/bsg_ep201_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/201/bsg_ep201_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Valley of Darkness|Valley of Darkness]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/202/bsg_ep202_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/202/bsg_ep202_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/202/bsg_ep202_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/202/bsg_ep202_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/202/bsg_ep202_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Resistance|Resistance]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/204/bsg_ep204_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/204/bsg_ep204_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/204/bsg_ep204_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/204/bsg_ep204_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/204/bsg_ep204_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:The Farm|The Farm]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/205/bsg_ep205_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/205/bsg_ep205_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/205/bsg_ep205_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/205/bsg_ep205_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/205/bsg_ep205_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Home, Part I|Home, Part I]] (with David Eick)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/206/bsg_ep206_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/206/bsg_ep206_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/206/bsg_ep206_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/206/bsg_ep206_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/206/bsg_ep206_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Home, Part II|Home, Part II]] (with David Eick)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/207/bsg_ep207_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/207/bsg_ep207_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/207/bsg_ep207_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/207/bsg_ep207_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/207/bsg_ep207_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Final Cut|Final Cut]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/208/bsg_ep208_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/208/bsg_ep208_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/208/bsg_ep208_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/208/bsg_ep208_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/208/bsg_ep208_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Flight of the Phoenix|Flight of the Phoenix]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/209/bsg_ep209_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Misco|Misco]] 19:58, 14 February 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 15:30, 14 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/209/bsg_ep209_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Misco|Misco]] 20:14, 14 February 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 22:52, 14 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/209/bsg_ep209_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:Misco|Misco]] 22:23, 14 February 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 23:10, 14 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/209/bsg_ep209_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:Misco|Misco]] 00:46, 15 February 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 09:57, 15 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/209/bsg_ep209_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: [[User:Misco|Misco]] 04:22, 15 February 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 10:50, 15 February 2006 (EST).)
*[[Podcast:Pegasus|Pegasus]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/210/bsg_ep210_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Ricimer|Ricimer]] 22:25, 14 December 2005 (EST). Verified: [[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 05:22, 15 December 2005 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/210/bsg_ep210_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 11:38, 21 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 21:58, 22 March 2006 (CST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/210/bsg_ep210_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 14:23, 30 March 2006 (CST). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/210/bsg_ep210_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:23, 11 April 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/210/bsg_ep210_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:35, 17 April 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Resurrection Ship, Part I|Resurrection Ship, Part I]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/211/bsg_ep211_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 14:25, 7 January 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Joe.Beaudoin|Joe Beaudoin]] 10:39, 8 January 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/211/bsg_ep211_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 21:46, 16 January 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 11:15, 1 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/211/bsg_ep211_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 20:21, 14 February 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 23:34, 14 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/211/bsg_ep211_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 22:13, 17 February 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 23:52, 18 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/211/bsg_ep211_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 16:02, 15 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 22:20, 16 March 2006 (CST).)
*[[Podcast:Resurrection Ship, Part II|Resurrection Ship, Part II]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/212/bsg_ep212_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/212/bsg_ep212_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/212/bsg_ep212_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/212/bsg_ep212_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/212/bsg_ep212_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Epiphanies|Epiphanies]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/213/bsg_ep213_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Misco|Misco]] 20:30, 15 February 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 09:24, 16 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/213/bsg_ep213_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Misco|Misco]] 06:23, 16 February 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 09:24, 16 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/213/bsg_ep213_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:Misco|Misco]] 07:24, 19 February 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 09:46, 20 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/213/bsg_ep213_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:Misco|Misco]] 09:50, 19 February 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 09:46, 20 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/213/bsg_ep213_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: [[User:Misco|Misco]] 16:33, 13 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 07:25, 14 March 2006 (CST).)
*[[Podcast:Black Market|Black Market]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/214/bsg_ep214_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/214/bsg_ep214_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/214/bsg_ep214_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/214/bsg_ep214_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/214/bsg_ep214_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Scar|Scar]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/215/bsg_ep215_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/215/bsg_ep215_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/215/bsg_ep215_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/215/bsg_ep215_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/215/bsg_ep215_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
====[[Podcast:Sacrifice|Sacrifice]]====
:*[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/216/bsg_ep216_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:14, 18 May 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
:*[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/216/bsg_ep216_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 12:13, 24 May 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
:*[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/216/bsg_ep216_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
:*[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/216/bsg_ep216_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
:*[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/216/bsg_ep216_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:The Captain's Hand|The Captain's Hand]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/217/bsg_ep217_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:28, 2 May 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/217/bsg_ep217_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 15:39, 3 May 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/217/bsg_ep217_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 11:59, 5 May 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/217/bsg_ep217_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 14:00, 8 May 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/217/bsg_ep217_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 15:32, 9 May 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Downloaded|Downloaded]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/218/bsg_ep218_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 00:00, 4 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 19:16, 5 March 2006 (CST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/218/bsg_ep218_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 01:06, 4 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 14:32, 6 March 2006 (CST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/218/bsg_ep218_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 01:37, 4 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:37, 7 March 2006 (CST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/218/bsg_ep218_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 09:50, 4 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 19:34, 8 March 2006 (CST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/218/bsg_ep218_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 11:01, 4 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:30, 9 March 2006 (CST).)
*[[Podcast:Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I|Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/219/bsg_ep219_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 08:30, 19 April 2006 (CDT). Verified: [[User:Shane|Shane]] ([[User_Talk:Shane|T]] - [[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]]) 11:30, 8 May 2006 (CDT).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/219/bsg_ep219_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 16:21, 19 April 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/219/bsg_ep219_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 11:20, 20 April 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/219/bsg_ep219_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 14:20, 21 April 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/219/bsg_ep219_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 10:31, 24 April 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II|Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/220/bsg_ep220_1of7.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 18:17, 11 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 14:00, 13 March 2006 (CST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/220/bsg_ep220_2of7.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 22:32, 14 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:11, 16 March 2006 (CST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/220/bsg_ep220_3of7.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 17:32, 19 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:21, 20 March 2006 (CST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/220/bsg_ep220_4of7.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 17:34, 8 April 2006 (CDT). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 11:37, 10 April 2006 (CDT).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/220/bsg_ep220_5of7.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/220/bsg_ep220_6of7.mp3 Act 5] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/220/bsg_ep220_7of7.mp3 Act 6] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)

== Test Checkin's ==

{{Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I Podcast}}

==Disputes==
Members of Battlestar Wiki with experience in acoustic phonetics are listed below. They may be able to help with pronunciation issues.

*[[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]]

[[Category: Podcasts]]

Podcast:The Hand of God

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Podcast:The Hand of God

2006-05-27T23:16:51Z

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Podcast:The Hand of God

2006-05-27T23:09:24Z

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Portal:Battlestar Galactica (RDM)/Season 3 Guide

2006-05-26T01:49:40Z

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{|
|-
! style="background-color: #421818; color: #F7FF63;" | Episode #
! style="background-color: #421818; color: #F7FF63;" | Title
! style="background-color: #421818; color: #F7FF63;" | Airdate
! style="background-color: #421818; color: #F7FF63;" | Screenshot
|- style="background-color: #421818; text-align: center;" |
| height="10" | 01
| [[Occupation]] ([[Talk:Occupation|Talk]])'''
| October 2006
| rowspan="2" | [[Image:Universal logo.jpg|200px]]
|- style="background-color: #421818" |
| colspan="3" valign="top" | '''Summary''' ''The Colonials survive on [[New Caprica]] under Cylon rule, with some collaborating and others fighting back.''
'''Quote''' "''N/A''" -- N/A
|- style="background-color: #421818; text-align: center;" |
| height="10" | 02
| [[Precipice]] ([[Talk:Precipice|Talk]])'''
| October 2006
| rowspan="2" | [[Image:Universal logo.jpg|200px]]
|- style="background-color: #421818" |
| colspan="3" valign="top" | '''Summary''' ''See Episode Guide Page.''
'''Quote''' "''N/A''" -- N/A
|- style="background-color: #421818; text-align: center;" |
| height="10" | 03
| [[Exodus]] ([[Talk:Exodus|Talk]])'''
| October 2006
| rowspan="2" | [[Image:Universal logo.jpg|200px]]
|- style="background-color: #421818" |
| colspan="3" valign="top" | '''Summary''' ''See Episode Guide Page.''
'''Quote''' "''N/A''" -- N/A
|- style="background-color: #421818; text-align: center;" |
| height="10" | 04
| [[Collaborators]] ([[Talk:Collaborators|Talk]])'''
| October 2006
| rowspan="2" | [[Image:Universal logo.jpg|200px]]
|- style="background-color: #421818" |
| colspan="3" valign="top" | '''Summary''' ''See Episode Guide Page.''
'''Quote''' "''N/A''" -- N/A
|- style="background-color: #421818; text-align: center;" |
| height="10" | 05
| [[Torn]] ([[Talk:Torn|Talk]])'''
| October 2006
| rowspan="2" | [[Image:Universal logo.jpg|200px]]
|- style="background-color: #421818" |
| colspan="3" valign="top" | '''Summary''' ''See Episode Guide Page.''
'''Quote''' "''N/A''" -- N/A

|}
<div align="center">
{{subpage edit|{{FULLPAGENAME}}/Season 3 Guide}}
</div>

Portal:Battlestar Galactica (RDM)/Season 3 Guide

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Battlestar Wiki:Podcast Transcripts

2006-05-25T00:51:14Z

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{{project|Podcast Transcripts}}

{{Projectimage|BSG WIKI Podcast.png}}
This project is meant to coordinate and standardize the transcription of [[Ronald D. Moore]]'s freely available episode podcasts. Our goal is to produce a searchable text repository for purposes of citation. At this time, we will only be transcribing freely available podcasts from [http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/ SciFi.com], not additonal DVD commentaries. Ron D. Moore and David Eick have recorded commentary tracks for the [[Miniseries]] (also including director Michael Rymer), "[[33]]", "[[Bastille Day]]", "[[Act of Contrition]]", and "[[You Can't Go Home Again]]". However, they have not been put up online for free but are only available in the Season 1 DVD set. Therefore, transcripts of these are not provided here, though relevant quotes may be found sourced in certain articles on Battlestar Wiki.

This project is a daughter of the [[Battlestar Wiki:Citation Jihad|Citation Jihad]].

==Standards==

===Namespace===
Podcast transcripts should be named after the episode to which they correspond with the addition of the (podcast) namespace, for example, [[Podcast:Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]].

===Structure===
Begin each podcast article with the template:
:<nowiki>{{podcast|author=YourNameHere|emailAuthor2=|suffix=|additionalCopyright=}}</nowiki>

Use first-level headings to divide Teaser and Act breaks. Make each heading an offsite link to the appropriate podcast segment, e.g.

==[<nowiki>http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/109/bsg_ep109_1of5.mp3</nowiki> Teaser]==

Try to break up RDMs comments into paragraphs along topical lines.

For those podcasts that are not [[Ronald D. Moore]]'s, please refer to {{tl|podcastother}} for transcribing other podcasts.

===Transcription===
RDM frequently uses "uh", "um" and "y'know" as discourse particles. For readabilities sake, try to exclude these where they interrupt the flow of an otherwise grammatical sentence.

Where RDM interrupts himself, end the last word of the first statement with an emdash. You may include whatever discourse particles he uses to introduce the next thought. For example:

"I think it's a very good movie, one that I always thought was a— y'know, prime for us to do a riff on."

Generally, you may ignore emphasis except where RDM's tone is critical to the interpretation of a statement (e.g. sarcasm).

===Links===
Where RDM mentions a BSG episode or character, link to our own article. Where he mentions a television show or actor which we do not have (or need) our own article for, offer a link to the corresponding page on IMDB. If another resource such as Wikipedia or Memory Alpha has more comprehensive information, you may link there at your discretion. To avoid overlinking, only link once per act break.

===Corrections===
Except for simple spelling errors, do not offer a "correction" without first having listened to the relevant portion of the recording. Always leave a comment on the talk page explaining your change.

==Checkins==
When you begin work on a transcription, place your name beside the segment you are working on. When you've completed and uploaded it, mark your name next to "Transcribed". Afterwards, it would be helpful for a second user to verify the transcription.
===Season 1 podcasts===
*[[Podcast:Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down|Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/109/bsg_ep109_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 20:52, 14 December 2005 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 11:46, 1 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/109/bsg_ep109_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 20:52, 14 December 2005 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 11:46, 1 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/109/bsg_ep109_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 23:54, 14 December 2005 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 11:46, 1 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/109/bsg_ep109_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 20:27, 15 December 2005 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 12:56, 1 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/109/bsg_ep109_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: [[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 00:38, 19 December 2005 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 12:56, 1 February 2006 (EST).)
*[[Podcast:The Hand of God|The Hand of God]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/110/bsg_ep110_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:strangefreeworld|strangefreeworld]] 17:12, 19 May 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 06:31, 22 May 2006 (CDT).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/110/bsg_ep110_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:strangefreeworld|strangefreeworld]] 21:21 24 May 2006 (EST). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/110/bsg_ep110_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/110/bsg_ep110_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/110/bsg_ep110_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Colonial Day|Colonial Day]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/111/bsg_ep111_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Misco|Misco]] 11:02, 15 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:25, 16 March 2006 (CST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/111/bsg_ep111_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/111/bsg_ep111_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/111/bsg_ep111_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/111/bsg_ep111_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I|Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/112/bsg_ep112_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Undc23|Undc23]] 23:38, 2 January 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 15:25, 1 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/112/bsg_ep112_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Undc23|Undc23]] 01:50, 3 January 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 15:25, 1 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/112/bsg_ep112_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:Undc23|Undc23]] 07:49, 4 January 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 09:23, 2 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/112/bsg_ep112_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:Undc23|Undc23]] 07:49, 4 January 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 09:42, 2 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/112/bsg_ep112_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: [[User:Undc23|Undc23]] 10:09, 1 February 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 09:59, 2 February 2006 (EST).)
*[[Podcast:Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II|Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/113/bsg_ep113_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/113/bsg_ep113_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/113/bsg_ep113_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/113/bsg_ep113_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/113/bsg_ep113_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
===Season 2 podcasts===
*[[Podcast:Scattered|Scattered]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/201/bsg_ep201_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Huh?|Huh?]] 11:15, 23 May 2006 (CDT). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:14, 23 May 2006 (CDT).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/201/bsg_ep201_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/201/bsg_ep201_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/201/bsg_ep201_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/201/bsg_ep201_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Valley of Darkness|Valley of Darkness]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/202/bsg_ep202_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/202/bsg_ep202_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/202/bsg_ep202_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/202/bsg_ep202_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/202/bsg_ep202_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Resistance|Resistance]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/204/bsg_ep204_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/204/bsg_ep204_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/204/bsg_ep204_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/204/bsg_ep204_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/204/bsg_ep204_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:The Farm|The Farm]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/205/bsg_ep205_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/205/bsg_ep205_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/205/bsg_ep205_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/205/bsg_ep205_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/205/bsg_ep205_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Home, Part I|Home, Part I]] (with David Eick)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/206/bsg_ep206_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/206/bsg_ep206_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/206/bsg_ep206_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/206/bsg_ep206_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/206/bsg_ep206_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Home, Part II|Home, Part II]] (with David Eick)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/207/bsg_ep207_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/207/bsg_ep207_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/207/bsg_ep207_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/207/bsg_ep207_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/207/bsg_ep207_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Final Cut|Final Cut]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/208/bsg_ep208_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/208/bsg_ep208_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/208/bsg_ep208_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/208/bsg_ep208_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/208/bsg_ep208_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Flight of the Phoenix|Flight of the Phoenix]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/209/bsg_ep209_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Misco|Misco]] 19:58, 14 February 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 15:30, 14 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/209/bsg_ep209_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Misco|Misco]] 20:14, 14 February 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 22:52, 14 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/209/bsg_ep209_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:Misco|Misco]] 22:23, 14 February 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 23:10, 14 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/209/bsg_ep209_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:Misco|Misco]] 00:46, 15 February 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 09:57, 15 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/209/bsg_ep209_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: [[User:Misco|Misco]] 04:22, 15 February 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 10:50, 15 February 2006 (EST).)
*[[Podcast:Pegasus|Pegasus]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/210/bsg_ep210_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Ricimer|Ricimer]] 22:25, 14 December 2005 (EST). Verified: [[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 05:22, 15 December 2005 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/210/bsg_ep210_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 11:38, 21 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 21:58, 22 March 2006 (CST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/210/bsg_ep210_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 14:23, 30 March 2006 (CST). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/210/bsg_ep210_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:23, 11 April 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/210/bsg_ep210_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:35, 17 April 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Resurrection Ship, Part I|Resurrection Ship, Part I]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/211/bsg_ep211_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 14:25, 7 January 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Joe.Beaudoin|Joe Beaudoin]] 10:39, 8 January 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/211/bsg_ep211_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 21:46, 16 January 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 11:15, 1 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/211/bsg_ep211_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 20:21, 14 February 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 23:34, 14 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/211/bsg_ep211_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 22:13, 17 February 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 23:52, 18 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/211/bsg_ep211_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 16:02, 15 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 22:20, 16 March 2006 (CST).)
*[[Podcast:Resurrection Ship, Part II|Resurrection Ship, Part II]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/212/bsg_ep212_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/212/bsg_ep212_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/212/bsg_ep212_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/212/bsg_ep212_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/212/bsg_ep212_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Epiphanies|Epiphanies]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/213/bsg_ep213_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Misco|Misco]] 20:30, 15 February 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 09:24, 16 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/213/bsg_ep213_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Misco|Misco]] 06:23, 16 February 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 09:24, 16 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/213/bsg_ep213_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:Misco|Misco]] 07:24, 19 February 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 09:46, 20 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/213/bsg_ep213_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:Misco|Misco]] 09:50, 19 February 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 09:46, 20 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/213/bsg_ep213_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: [[User:Misco|Misco]] 16:33, 13 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 07:25, 14 March 2006 (CST).)
*[[Podcast:Black Market|Black Market]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/214/bsg_ep214_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/214/bsg_ep214_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/214/bsg_ep214_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/214/bsg_ep214_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/214/bsg_ep214_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Scar|Scar]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/215/bsg_ep215_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/215/bsg_ep215_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/215/bsg_ep215_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/215/bsg_ep215_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/215/bsg_ep215_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
====[[Podcast:Sacrifice|Sacrifice]]====
:*[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/216/bsg_ep216_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:14, 18 May 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
:*[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/216/bsg_ep216_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 12:13, 24 May 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
:*[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/216/bsg_ep216_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
:*[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/216/bsg_ep216_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
:*[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/216/bsg_ep216_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:The Captain's Hand|The Captain's Hand]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/217/bsg_ep217_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:28, 2 May 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/217/bsg_ep217_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 15:39, 3 May 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/217/bsg_ep217_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 11:59, 5 May 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/217/bsg_ep217_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 14:00, 8 May 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/217/bsg_ep217_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 15:32, 9 May 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Downloaded|Downloaded]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/218/bsg_ep218_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 00:00, 4 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 19:16, 5 March 2006 (CST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/218/bsg_ep218_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 01:06, 4 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 14:32, 6 March 2006 (CST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/218/bsg_ep218_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 01:37, 4 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:37, 7 March 2006 (CST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/218/bsg_ep218_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 09:50, 4 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 19:34, 8 March 2006 (CST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/218/bsg_ep218_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 11:01, 4 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:30, 9 March 2006 (CST).)
*[[Podcast:Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I|Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/219/bsg_ep219_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 08:30, 19 April 2006 (CDT). Verified: [[User:Shane|Shane]] ([[User_Talk:Shane|T]] - [[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]]) 11:30, 8 May 2006 (CDT).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/219/bsg_ep219_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 16:21, 19 April 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/219/bsg_ep219_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 11:20, 20 April 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/219/bsg_ep219_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 14:20, 21 April 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/219/bsg_ep219_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 10:31, 24 April 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II|Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/220/bsg_ep220_1of7.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 18:17, 11 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 14:00, 13 March 2006 (CST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/220/bsg_ep220_2of7.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 22:32, 14 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:11, 16 March 2006 (CST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/220/bsg_ep220_3of7.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 17:32, 19 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:21, 20 March 2006 (CST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/220/bsg_ep220_4of7.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 17:34, 8 April 2006 (CDT). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 11:37, 10 April 2006 (CDT).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/220/bsg_ep220_5of7.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/220/bsg_ep220_6of7.mp3 Act 5] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/220/bsg_ep220_7of7.mp3 Act 6] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)

== Test Checkin's ==

{{Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I Podcast}}

==Disputes==
Members of Battlestar Wiki with experience in acoustic phonetics are listed below. They may be able to help with pronunciation issues.

*[[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]]

[[Category: Podcasts]]

Battlestar Wiki:Podcast Transcripts

2006-05-25T00:50:06Z

Strangefreeworld:

{{project|Podcast Transcripts}}

{{Projectimage|BSG WIKI Podcast.png}}
This project is meant to coordinate and standardize the transcription of [[Ronald D. Moore]]'s freely available episode podcasts. Our goal is to produce a searchable text repository for purposes of citation. At this time, we will only be transcribing freely available podcasts from [http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/ SciFi.com], not additonal DVD commentaries. Ron D. Moore and David Eick have recorded commentary tracks for the [[Miniseries]] (also including director Michael Rymer), "[[33]]", "[[Bastille Day]]", "[[Act of Contrition]]", and "[[You Can't Go Home Again]]". However, they have not been put up online for free but are only available in the Season 1 DVD set. Therefore, transcripts of these are not provided here, though relevant quotes may be found sourced in certain articles on Battlestar Wiki.

This project is a daughter of the [[Battlestar Wiki:Citation Jihad|Citation Jihad]].

==Standards==

===Namespace===
Podcast transcripts should be named after the episode to which they correspond with the addition of the (podcast) namespace, for example, [[Podcast:Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]].

===Structure===
Begin each podcast article with the template:
:<nowiki>{{podcast|author=YourNameHere|emailAuthor2=|suffix=|additionalCopyright=}}</nowiki>

Use first-level headings to divide Teaser and Act breaks. Make each heading an offsite link to the appropriate podcast segment, e.g.

==[<nowiki>http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/109/bsg_ep109_1of5.mp3</nowiki> Teaser]==

Try to break up RDMs comments into paragraphs along topical lines.

For those podcasts that are not [[Ronald D. Moore]]'s, please refer to {{tl|podcastother}} for transcribing other podcasts.

===Transcription===
RDM frequently uses "uh", "um" and "y'know" as discourse particles. For readabilities sake, try to exclude these where they interrupt the flow of an otherwise grammatical sentence.

Where RDM interrupts himself, end the last word of the first statement with an emdash. You may include whatever discourse particles he uses to introduce the next thought. For example:

"I think it's a very good movie, one that I always thought was a— y'know, prime for us to do a riff on."

Generally, you may ignore emphasis except where RDM's tone is critical to the interpretation of a statement (e.g. sarcasm).

===Links===
Where RDM mentions a BSG episode or character, link to our own article. Where he mentions a television show or actor which we do not have (or need) our own article for, offer a link to the corresponding page on IMDB. If another resource such as Wikipedia or Memory Alpha has more comprehensive information, you may link there at your discretion. To avoid overlinking, only link once per act break.

===Corrections===
Except for simple spelling errors, do not offer a "correction" without first having listened to the relevant portion of the recording. Always leave a comment on the talk page explaining your change.

==Checkins==
When you begin work on a transcription, place your name beside the segment you are working on. When you've completed and uploaded it, mark your name next to "Transcribed". Afterwards, it would be helpful for a second user to verify the transcription.
===Season 1 podcasts===
*[[Podcast:Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down|Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/109/bsg_ep109_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 20:52, 14 December 2005 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 11:46, 1 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/109/bsg_ep109_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 20:52, 14 December 2005 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 11:46, 1 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/109/bsg_ep109_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 23:54, 14 December 2005 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 11:46, 1 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/109/bsg_ep109_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 20:27, 15 December 2005 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 12:56, 1 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/109/bsg_ep109_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: [[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 00:38, 19 December 2005 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 12:56, 1 February 2006 (EST).)
*[[Podcast:The Hand of God|The Hand of God]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/110/bsg_ep110_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:strangefreeworld|strangefreeworld]] 17:12, 19 May 2006. Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 06:31, 22 May 2006 (CDT).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/110/bsg_ep110_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:strangefreeworld|strangefreeworld]] 21:21 24 May 2006. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/110/bsg_ep110_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/110/bsg_ep110_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/110/bsg_ep110_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Colonial Day|Colonial Day]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/111/bsg_ep111_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Misco|Misco]] 11:02, 15 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:25, 16 March 2006 (CST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/111/bsg_ep111_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/111/bsg_ep111_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/111/bsg_ep111_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/111/bsg_ep111_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I|Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/112/bsg_ep112_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Undc23|Undc23]] 23:38, 2 January 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 15:25, 1 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/112/bsg_ep112_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Undc23|Undc23]] 01:50, 3 January 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 15:25, 1 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/112/bsg_ep112_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:Undc23|Undc23]] 07:49, 4 January 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 09:23, 2 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/112/bsg_ep112_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:Undc23|Undc23]] 07:49, 4 January 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 09:42, 2 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/112/bsg_ep112_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: [[User:Undc23|Undc23]] 10:09, 1 February 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 09:59, 2 February 2006 (EST).)
*[[Podcast:Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II|Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/113/bsg_ep113_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/113/bsg_ep113_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/113/bsg_ep113_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/113/bsg_ep113_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/113/bsg_ep113_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
===Season 2 podcasts===
*[[Podcast:Scattered|Scattered]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/201/bsg_ep201_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Huh?|Huh?]] 11:15, 23 May 2006 (CDT). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:14, 23 May 2006 (CDT).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/201/bsg_ep201_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/201/bsg_ep201_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/201/bsg_ep201_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/201/bsg_ep201_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Valley of Darkness|Valley of Darkness]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/202/bsg_ep202_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/202/bsg_ep202_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/202/bsg_ep202_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/202/bsg_ep202_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/202/bsg_ep202_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Resistance|Resistance]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/204/bsg_ep204_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/204/bsg_ep204_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/204/bsg_ep204_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/204/bsg_ep204_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/204/bsg_ep204_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:The Farm|The Farm]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/205/bsg_ep205_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/205/bsg_ep205_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/205/bsg_ep205_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/205/bsg_ep205_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/205/bsg_ep205_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Home, Part I|Home, Part I]] (with David Eick)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/206/bsg_ep206_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/206/bsg_ep206_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/206/bsg_ep206_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/206/bsg_ep206_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/206/bsg_ep206_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Home, Part II|Home, Part II]] (with David Eick)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/207/bsg_ep207_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/207/bsg_ep207_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/207/bsg_ep207_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/207/bsg_ep207_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/207/bsg_ep207_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Final Cut|Final Cut]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/208/bsg_ep208_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/208/bsg_ep208_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/208/bsg_ep208_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/208/bsg_ep208_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/208/bsg_ep208_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Flight of the Phoenix|Flight of the Phoenix]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/209/bsg_ep209_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Misco|Misco]] 19:58, 14 February 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 15:30, 14 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/209/bsg_ep209_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Misco|Misco]] 20:14, 14 February 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 22:52, 14 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/209/bsg_ep209_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:Misco|Misco]] 22:23, 14 February 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 23:10, 14 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/209/bsg_ep209_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:Misco|Misco]] 00:46, 15 February 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 09:57, 15 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/209/bsg_ep209_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: [[User:Misco|Misco]] 04:22, 15 February 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 10:50, 15 February 2006 (EST).)
*[[Podcast:Pegasus|Pegasus]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/210/bsg_ep210_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Ricimer|Ricimer]] 22:25, 14 December 2005 (EST). Verified: [[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 05:22, 15 December 2005 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/210/bsg_ep210_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 11:38, 21 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 21:58, 22 March 2006 (CST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/210/bsg_ep210_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 14:23, 30 March 2006 (CST). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/210/bsg_ep210_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:23, 11 April 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/210/bsg_ep210_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:35, 17 April 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Resurrection Ship, Part I|Resurrection Ship, Part I]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/211/bsg_ep211_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 14:25, 7 January 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Joe.Beaudoin|Joe Beaudoin]] 10:39, 8 January 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/211/bsg_ep211_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 21:46, 16 January 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 11:15, 1 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/211/bsg_ep211_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 20:21, 14 February 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 23:34, 14 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/211/bsg_ep211_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 22:13, 17 February 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 23:52, 18 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/211/bsg_ep211_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 16:02, 15 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 22:20, 16 March 2006 (CST).)
*[[Podcast:Resurrection Ship, Part II|Resurrection Ship, Part II]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/212/bsg_ep212_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/212/bsg_ep212_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/212/bsg_ep212_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/212/bsg_ep212_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/212/bsg_ep212_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Epiphanies|Epiphanies]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/213/bsg_ep213_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Misco|Misco]] 20:30, 15 February 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 09:24, 16 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/213/bsg_ep213_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Misco|Misco]] 06:23, 16 February 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 09:24, 16 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/213/bsg_ep213_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:Misco|Misco]] 07:24, 19 February 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 09:46, 20 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/213/bsg_ep213_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:Misco|Misco]] 09:50, 19 February 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 09:46, 20 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/213/bsg_ep213_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: [[User:Misco|Misco]] 16:33, 13 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 07:25, 14 March 2006 (CST).)
*[[Podcast:Black Market|Black Market]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/214/bsg_ep214_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/214/bsg_ep214_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/214/bsg_ep214_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/214/bsg_ep214_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/214/bsg_ep214_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Scar|Scar]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/215/bsg_ep215_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/215/bsg_ep215_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/215/bsg_ep215_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/215/bsg_ep215_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/215/bsg_ep215_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
====[[Podcast:Sacrifice|Sacrifice]]====
:*[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/216/bsg_ep216_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:14, 18 May 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
:*[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/216/bsg_ep216_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 12:13, 24 May 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
:*[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/216/bsg_ep216_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
:*[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/216/bsg_ep216_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
:*[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/216/bsg_ep216_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:The Captain's Hand|The Captain's Hand]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/217/bsg_ep217_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:28, 2 May 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/217/bsg_ep217_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 15:39, 3 May 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/217/bsg_ep217_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 11:59, 5 May 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/217/bsg_ep217_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 14:00, 8 May 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/217/bsg_ep217_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 15:32, 9 May 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Downloaded|Downloaded]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/218/bsg_ep218_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 00:00, 4 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 19:16, 5 March 2006 (CST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/218/bsg_ep218_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 01:06, 4 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 14:32, 6 March 2006 (CST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/218/bsg_ep218_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 01:37, 4 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:37, 7 March 2006 (CST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/218/bsg_ep218_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 09:50, 4 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 19:34, 8 March 2006 (CST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/218/bsg_ep218_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 11:01, 4 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:30, 9 March 2006 (CST).)
*[[Podcast:Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I|Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/219/bsg_ep219_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 08:30, 19 April 2006 (CDT). Verified: [[User:Shane|Shane]] ([[User_Talk:Shane|T]] - [[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]]) 11:30, 8 May 2006 (CDT).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/219/bsg_ep219_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 16:21, 19 April 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/219/bsg_ep219_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 11:20, 20 April 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/219/bsg_ep219_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 14:20, 21 April 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/219/bsg_ep219_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 10:31, 24 April 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II|Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/220/bsg_ep220_1of7.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 18:17, 11 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 14:00, 13 March 2006 (CST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/220/bsg_ep220_2of7.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 22:32, 14 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:11, 16 March 2006 (CST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/220/bsg_ep220_3of7.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 17:32, 19 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:21, 20 March 2006 (CST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/220/bsg_ep220_4of7.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 17:34, 8 April 2006 (CDT). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 11:37, 10 April 2006 (CDT).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/220/bsg_ep220_5of7.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/220/bsg_ep220_6of7.mp3 Act 5] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/220/bsg_ep220_7of7.mp3 Act 6] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)

== Test Checkin's ==

{{Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I Podcast}}

==Disputes==
Members of Battlestar Wiki with experience in acoustic phonetics are listed below. They may be able to help with pronunciation issues.

*[[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]]

[[Category: Podcasts]]

Podcast:The Hand of God

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Strangefreeworld:

Podcast:The Hand of God

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Strangefreeworld:

Podcast:The Hand of God

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Battlestar Wiki:Podcast Transcripts

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Strangefreeworld:

{{project|Podcast Transcripts}}

{{Projectimage|BSG WIKI Podcast.png}}
This project is meant to coordinate and standardize the transcription of [[Ronald D. Moore]]'s freely available episode podcasts. Our goal is to produce a searchable text repository for purposes of citation. At this time, we will only be transcribing freely available podcasts from [http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/ SciFi.com], not additonal DVD commentaries. Ron D. Moore and David Eick have recorded commentary tracks for the [[Miniseries]] (also including director Michael Rymer), "[[33]]", "[[Bastille Day]]", "[[Act of Contrition]]", and "[[You Can't Go Home Again]]". However, they have not been put up online for free but are only available in the Season 1 DVD set. Therefore, transcripts of these are not provided here, though relevant quotes may be found sourced in certain articles on Battlestar Wiki.

This project is a daughter of the [[Battlestar Wiki:Citation Jihad|Citation Jihad]].

==Standards==

===Namespace===
Podcast transcripts should be named after the episode to which they correspond with the addition of the (podcast) namespace, for example, [[Podcast:Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]].

===Structure===
Begin each podcast article with the template:
:<nowiki>{{podcast|author=YourNameHere|emailAuthor2=|suffix=|additionalCopyright=}}</nowiki>

Use first-level headings to divide Teaser and Act breaks. Make each heading an offsite link to the appropriate podcast segment, e.g.

==[<nowiki>http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/109/bsg_ep109_1of5.mp3</nowiki> Teaser]==

Try to break up RDMs comments into paragraphs along topical lines.

For those podcasts that are not [[Ronald D. Moore]]'s, please refer to {{tl|podcastother}} for transcriping other podcasts.

===Transcription===
RDM frequently uses "uh", "um" and "y'know" as discourse particles. For readabilities sake, try to exclude these where they interrupt the flow of an otherwise grammatical sentence.

Where RDM interrupts himself, end the last word of the first statement with an emdash. You may include whatever discourse particles he uses to introduce the next thought. For example:

"I think it's a very good movie, one that I always thought was a— y'know, prime for us to do a riff on."

Generally, you may ignore emphasis except where RDM's tone is critical to the interpretation of a statement (e.g. sarcasm).

===Links===
Where RDM mentions a BSG episode or character, link to our own article. Where he mentions a television show or actor which we do not have (or need) our own article for, offer a link to the corresponding page on IMDB. If another resource such as Wikipedia or Memory Alpha has more comprehensive information, you may link there at your discretion. To avoid overlinking, only link once per act break.

===Corrections===
Except for simple spelling errors, do not offer a "correction" without first having listened to the relevant portion of the recording. Always leave a comment on the talk page explaining your change.

==Checkins==
When you begin work on a transcription, place your name beside the segment you are working on. When you've completed and uploaded it, mark your name next to "Transcribed". Afterwards, it would be helpful for a second user to verify the transcription.
*[[Podcast:Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down|Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/109/bsg_ep109_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 20:52, 14 December 2005 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 11:46, 1 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/109/bsg_ep109_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 20:52, 14 December 2005 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 11:46, 1 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/109/bsg_ep109_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 23:54, 14 December 2005 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 11:46, 1 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/109/bsg_ep109_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 20:27, 15 December 2005 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 12:56, 1 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/109/bsg_ep109_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: [[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 00:38, 19 December 2005 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 12:56, 1 February 2006 (EST).)
*[[Podcast:The Hand of God|The Hand of God]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/110/bsg_ep110_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:strangefreeworld|strangefreeworld]] 17:12, 19 May 2006. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/110/bsg_ep110_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/110/bsg_ep110_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/110/bsg_ep110_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/110/bsg_ep110_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Colonial Day|Colonial Day]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/111/bsg_ep111_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Misco|Misco]] 11:02, 15 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:25, 16 March 2006 (CST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/111/bsg_ep111_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/111/bsg_ep111_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/111/bsg_ep111_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/111/bsg_ep111_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I|Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/112/bsg_ep112_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Undc23|Undc23]] 23:38, 2 January 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 15:25, 1 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/112/bsg_ep112_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Undc23|Undc23]] 01:50, 3 January 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 15:25, 1 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/112/bsg_ep112_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:Undc23|Undc23]] 07:49, 4 January 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 09:23, 2 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/112/bsg_ep112_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:Undc23|Undc23]] 07:49, 4 January 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 09:42, 2 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/112/bsg_ep112_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: [[User:Undc23|Undc23]] 10:09, 1 February 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 09:59, 2 February 2006 (EST).)
*[[Podcast:Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II|Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/113/bsg_ep113_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/113/bsg_ep113_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/113/bsg_ep113_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/113/bsg_ep113_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/113/bsg_ep113_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Scattered|Scattered]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/201/bsg_ep201_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/201/bsg_ep201_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/201/bsg_ep201_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/201/bsg_ep201_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/201/bsg_ep201_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Valley of Darkness|Valley of Darkness]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/202/bsg_ep202_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/202/bsg_ep202_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/202/bsg_ep202_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/202/bsg_ep202_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/202/bsg_ep202_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Resistance|Resistance]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/204/bsg_ep204_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/204/bsg_ep204_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/204/bsg_ep204_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/204/bsg_ep204_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/204/bsg_ep204_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:The Farm|The Farm]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/205/bsg_ep205_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/205/bsg_ep205_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/205/bsg_ep205_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/205/bsg_ep205_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/205/bsg_ep205_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Home, Part I|Home, Part I]] (with David Eick)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/206/bsg_ep206_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/206/bsg_ep206_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/206/bsg_ep206_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/206/bsg_ep206_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/206/bsg_ep206_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Home, Part II|Home, Part II]] (with David Eick)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/207/bsg_ep207_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/207/bsg_ep207_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/207/bsg_ep207_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/207/bsg_ep207_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/207/bsg_ep207_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Final Cut|Final Cut]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/208/bsg_ep208_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/208/bsg_ep208_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/208/bsg_ep208_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/208/bsg_ep208_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/208/bsg_ep208_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Flight of the Phoenix|Flight of the Phoenix]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/209/bsg_ep209_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Misco|Misco]] 19:58, 14 February 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 15:30, 14 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/209/bsg_ep209_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Misco|Misco]] 20:14, 14 February 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 22:52, 14 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/209/bsg_ep209_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:Misco|Misco]] 22:23, 14 February 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 23:10, 14 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/209/bsg_ep209_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:Misco|Misco]] 00:46, 15 February 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 09:57, 15 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/209/bsg_ep209_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: [[User:Misco|Misco]] 04:22, 15 February 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 10:50, 15 February 2006 (EST).)
*[[Podcast:Pegasus|Pegasus]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/210/bsg_ep210_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Ricimer|Ricimer]] 22:25, 14 December 2005 (EST). Verified: [[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 05:22, 15 December 2005 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/210/bsg_ep210_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 11:38, 21 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 21:58, 22 March 2006 (CST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/210/bsg_ep210_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 14:23, 30 March 2006 (CST). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/210/bsg_ep210_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:23, 11 April 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/210/bsg_ep210_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:35, 17 April 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Resurrection Ship, Part I|Resurrection Ship, Part I]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/211/bsg_ep211_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 14:25, 7 January 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Joe.Beaudoin|Joe Beaudoin]] 10:39, 8 January 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/211/bsg_ep211_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 21:46, 16 January 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 11:15, 1 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/211/bsg_ep211_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 20:21, 14 February 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 23:34, 14 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/211/bsg_ep211_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 22:13, 17 February 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 23:52, 18 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/211/bsg_ep211_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 16:02, 15 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 22:20, 16 March 2006 (CST).)
*[[Podcast:Resurrection Ship, Part II|Resurrection Ship, Part II]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/212/bsg_ep212_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/212/bsg_ep212_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/212/bsg_ep212_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/212/bsg_ep212_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/212/bsg_ep212_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Epiphanies|Epiphanies]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/213/bsg_ep213_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Misco|Misco]] 20:30, 15 February 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 09:24, 16 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/213/bsg_ep213_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Misco|Misco]] 06:23, 16 February 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 09:24, 16 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/213/bsg_ep213_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:Misco|Misco]] 07:24, 19 February 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 09:46, 20 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/213/bsg_ep213_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:Misco|Misco]] 09:50, 19 February 2006 (EST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 09:46, 20 February 2006 (EST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/213/bsg_ep213_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: [[User:Misco|Misco]] 16:33, 13 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 07:25, 14 March 2006 (CST).)
*[[Podcast:Black Market|Black Market]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/214/bsg_ep214_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/214/bsg_ep214_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/214/bsg_ep214_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/214/bsg_ep214_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/214/bsg_ep214_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Scar|Scar]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/215/bsg_ep215_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/215/bsg_ep215_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
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**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/215/bsg_ep215_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
====[[Podcast:Sacrifice|Sacrifice]]====
:*[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/216/bsg_ep216_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:14, 18 May 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
:*[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/216/bsg_ep216_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
:*[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/216/bsg_ep216_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
:*[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/216/bsg_ep216_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
:*[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/216/bsg_ep216_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:The Captain's Hand|The Captain's Hand]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/217/bsg_ep217_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:28, 2 May 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/217/bsg_ep217_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 15:39, 3 May 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/217/bsg_ep217_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 11:59, 5 May 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/217/bsg_ep217_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 14:00, 8 May 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/217/bsg_ep217_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 15:32, 9 May 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Downloaded|Downloaded]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/218/bsg_ep218_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 00:00, 4 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 19:16, 5 March 2006 (CST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/218/bsg_ep218_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 01:06, 4 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 14:32, 6 March 2006 (CST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/218/bsg_ep218_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 01:37, 4 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:37, 7 March 2006 (CST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/218/bsg_ep218_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 09:50, 4 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 19:34, 8 March 2006 (CST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/218/bsg_ep218_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 11:01, 4 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:30, 9 March 2006 (CST).)
*[[Podcast:Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I|Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/219/bsg_ep219_1of5.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 08:30, 19 April 2006 (CDT). Verified: [[User:Shane|Shane]] ([[User_Talk:Shane|T]] - [[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]]) 11:30, 8 May 2006 (CDT).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/219/bsg_ep219_2of5.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 16:21, 19 April 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/219/bsg_ep219_3of5.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 11:20, 20 April 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/219/bsg_ep219_4of5.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 14:20, 21 April 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/219/bsg_ep219_5of5.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 10:31, 24 April 2006 (CDT). Verified: —.)
*[[Podcast:Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II|Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/220/bsg_ep220_1of7.mp3 Teaser] (Transcribed: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 18:17, 11 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 14:00, 13 March 2006 (CST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/220/bsg_ep220_2of7.mp3 Act 1] (Transcribed: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 22:32, 14 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:11, 16 March 2006 (CST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/220/bsg_ep220_3of7.mp3 Act 2] (Transcribed: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 17:32, 19 March 2006 (CST). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 13:21, 20 March 2006 (CST).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/220/bsg_ep220_4of7.mp3 Act 3] (Transcribed: [[User:Laineylain|Laineylain]] 17:34, 8 April 2006 (CDT). Verified: [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 11:37, 10 April 2006 (CDT).)
**[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/220/bsg_ep220_5of7.mp3 Act 4] (Transcribed: —. Verified: —.)
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== Test Checkin's ==

{{Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I Podcast}}

==Disputes==
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*[[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]]

[[Category: Podcasts]]

Podcast:The Hand of God

2006-05-19T20:38:09Z

Strangefreeworld:

Six Degrees of Separation

2005-11-28T01:56:51Z

Strangefreeworld: some of the grammar was a little clunky

[[Image:bsg-1-07.jpg|thumb|"Six Degrees of Separation" (credit: Sci-Fi Channel)]]

== Overview ==

: ''[[Six]] physically arrives on the ''[[Galactica]]'' and accuses [[Gaius Baltar|Baltar]] of treachery.''

== Summary ==

* [[Gaius Baltar]] is taking the mickey out of [[Number Six|Six's]] belief in God, which quickly escalates into an explosion of anger on his part -- and Six vanishes from his head
* Called to [[CIC]], Baltar "finds" her there, and is confronted by [[William Adama|Adama]], who claims that "[[Number Six#"Shelly Godfrey"|Miss Godfrey]]" has made some disturbing claims against Baltar.
* With a shock, Baltar comes to realise that "Miss Godfrey" is in fact Six, and everyone can see her.
* "Miss Godfrey" then produces photographic evidence she claims will show Baltar planting a bomb in the main defence computers on Caprica - a claim he strenuously denies.
* The image itself requires a full day of processing to reveal whether it does in fact show Baltar as "Godfrey" claims. Until that time, Adama suspends all work on Baltar's [[Cylon detector]] and places an embargo on Baltar leaving the ship -- something even [[Laura Roslin|Roslin]] is unwilling to override.
* But Roslin herself is far from well -- during her call with Baltar, she collapses, causing a fleet-wide scare when [[Billy Keikeya|Billy]] orders the flight deck to make a fleet-wide broadcast requesting medical assistance. It transpires that Roslin has been overdoing her [[Chamalla|cancer medication]] - but the truth is hidden by a a story that she has the 'flu.
* As [[Gaeta]] works on enhancing the image, so Baltar becomes more and more desperate for news - even following Gaeta into the Head (lavatory) for news on his progress
* Elsewhere, "Miss Godfrey" meets with Adama in private, and behaves in typical Six fashion - coming on to him
* "Godfrey's" behaviour prompts Adama to order a watch be kept on her movements on the ship
*Elsewhere on the ''[[Galactica]]'', [[Tyrol]] and [[Cally]] are investigating the captured Cylon Raider, using [[Kara Thrace|Starbuck]]'s notes, but not making much progress, despite comments to the contrary to [[Saul Tigh|Colonel Tigh]], who isn't fooled
* Tigh visits Starbuck in sickbay, and despite her efforts not to fall for his reverse psychology, he goads her into getting out of her cot and going to help Tyrol and his crew
* Boomer arrives at the Raider, and after an awkward moment with Tyrol, suggests that they might make better progress if they treated the Raider more like an animal – a hunter – than a machine. Her behaviour with the Raider, stroking it as she speaks, spooks Tyrol
* During a meeting with Adama, at which he protests his innocence and tries to get Adama to make "Shelly Godrey" to submit to a test with his Cylon detector, Baltar learns that Adama plans to have the detector dismantled if the photographic evidence points to Baltar's guilt
* During his conversation with Adama, he continues to search the house in his mind, trying to find "his" Six
* Driven to extreme measures as the time required to enhance the image draws to a close, Baltar sets off a fire alarm as a distraction, breaks into the lab where Gaeta has been working and tries to destroy the evidence as it does indeed reveal his face - only to be stopped by Adama and arrested
* Down on the hanger deck, Starbuck joins [[Lee Adama]], Tyrol and Cally in their investigations of the Raider - even to the extent of climbing inside the craft despite her leg injury ([[You Can't Go Home Again]])
* In the [[brig]], Baltar is visited by Roslin, whom he believes has come to oversee his release. Instead, she is uncharacteristically vindictive, stating she ''knew'' he was a traitor
* As a result of Roslin's visit, Baltar finally sees his only way out is to do what Six has been urging him to do: give himself over to God's will. He gets down on his knees and starts praying
* He repeats his prayer several times, and suddenly "Six" is beside him once more, telling him everything will be all right
* Gaeta enters the brig and throws Baltar into a wild panic: he is convinced he is about to be summarily executed
* Calming Baltar, Gaeta tells Baltar he is a free man - the photographs delivered by "Shelly Godfrey" have proven to be fakes
* As Baltar is released, Adama learns that "Shelly Godfrey" has literally vanished, her watchers reporting she turned a corner in a corridor, and when they got to it, she had simply disappeared
* On ''[[Colonial One]]'', Roslin holds a press conference publicly exonerating Baltar
* While acknowledging the act, Baltar meets with Six in his fantasy world, and she points out that he is now next to invincible: he's been through a trial by fire, and no-one would dare accuse him of acting against the fleet again. She then starts stripping as she climbs the stairs to the bedroom
* Following her, Baltar can't help asking her one question: was "Shelly Godfrey" ever really "here"? Her response is a coy smile

=== On Caprica: ===
* [[Helo]] and [[Sharon Valerii#Caprica Valerii|Valerii]] are on the run from [[Cylon]] [[Centurion|Centurions]]
* As they camp out for the night, Helo confesses he couldn't bear to see anything happen to her
* Hiding a smile of victory, Valerii silences Helo's words with a kiss, and as a thunderstorm threatens, they make love

== Summary from scifi.com ==
When Baltar and the Number Six who lives in his head have a falling out, she abandons him, only to surface a short while later aboard the Galactica. But now she's called Shelley Godfrey, everyone can see her, and she's telling them that she has evidence, passed on by the late Dr. Amarak, that will prove Baltar sold out the human race to the Cylons.

With Baltar in a panic and trying to save himself, Number Six focuses her charms on Commander Adama. But the Commander is wary of this stunning stranger and has her followed while her evidence is analyzed.

Kara struggles to recover from her injuries while Chief Tyrol and the crew try to reverse-engineer the Cylon raider she piloted home.

Meanwhile, dual Sharons face their own challenges — on Caprica, she and Helo are on the run from Cylon centurions; on the Galactica, she's terrified of being exposed as a Cylon herself.
-- This section ©2005, [http://www.scifi.com SCI FI]. All rights reserved.

== Questions ==
*Is Baltar's Six in communication with her "sisters" in the fleet?
*Where did "Shelly Godfrey" go after her "disappearance"?
*If she is still on the ''Galactica'', is Boomer unwittingly helping her?
*Will Baltar forgive Roslin for her condemnation of him?
*Even if he completes his Cylon detector, will any results it gives be trustworthy? ([[Flesh and Bone|Answer]])
*What is the range of actions in Baltar's fantasy world that are translated over into the real world?

== Analysis ==

This is potentially the most powerful story yet to come out of the BSG fold, and [[James Callis]] – with due respect to [[Edward James Olmos]] – establishes himself as one of the prime reasons to watch the show. This is his episode, and he proves that he is not only every inch Olmos’ equal – albeit through vastly different means – but that his long shadow very much leaves the rest of the cast in darkness.

From start to finish, even knowing that ultimately, Baltar’s ego and sexual moirés did lead to the downfall of Colonial civilisation - that he is essentially a traitor, however unwittingly, one cannot help but root for his safe passage through the episode. Confidence, arrogance, pathos, fear, desperation, relief, confusion, hope, anger, disbelief – such is the range of emotions demonstrated by Baltar in this segment; some of them occurring so rapidly one after the other, that Callis seems to express them simultaneously.

As Six states during the epilogue, this is Baltar’s trial by fire – and the repercussions could be felt for some time to come. Who would dare accuse him of treason now? Even if her doubt – her gut instinct – is genuine, Roslin is going to have a hard time assailing Baltar’s new-found confidence and belief in himself. Adama is also caught between a rock and a hard place; any denial of resources for Baltar’s research could easily lead to he who was once branded traitor to make that claim of others in the name of protecting them all. In making his situation a matter of public debate, Roslin has potentially saddled herself with a new hero – as the standing ovation Baltar received from the press corps tends to demonstrate – and a potentially new political power. With elections only a few months off, and Tom Zarek’s return to the public stage mere weeks away (real time, in “Colonial Day”), Roslin may yet rue the day she made her uncharacteristic – and unwarranted, in some respects – personal attack on Baltar while he was in the brig.

"Shelly Godfrey" herself is the clearest indication yet that Baltar's Six is not only an implant in Baltar's head - but that "she" is in direct contact with other Cylons scattered within the fleet, and they are working in concert with one another in order to fully subvert Baltar to their will. Why?

The idea that "Shelly Godfrey" is a humano-Cylon working to prevent Baltar from finalising his Cylon detector would make her arrival on the Galactica at the precise moment Six vanishes from Baltar’s head push coincidence to the limits of credibility.

Plus – if “Shelly Godfrey” was an attempt to stop the Cylon detector being completed, why was her evidence so clearly falsified? As Gaeta himself states: “Once the photos were fully resolved, it was almost too easy, like she wanted to be found out.” If “photographic evidence” can be manufactured by the Cylons, why not go for something that would genuinely condemn Baltar and which would be next to impossible for him to honestly deny: evidence that he allowed his [[Command Navigation Program]] to be tampered with?

No, the entire aim of "Shelly Godfrey's" arrival on the ''[[Galactica]]'' is to bring Baltar to that point in his life where his only salvation is to seek God's forgiveness and allow "Him" into his life. This is why her arrival is preceded by Six "vanishing" from Baltar's mind - thus leaving him without any form of inner support; and why "Shelly Godfrey" apparently "disappears" from the ''Galactica'' almost as soon as Baltar begs for God's forgiveness.

Taken together, these events all point to the fact that Six and her corporeal "sister" ("Godfrey") are in contact with one another. The Cylons within the fleet know that they cannot prevent Baltar from developing his detector indefinitely. Doing so would cause him to lose far too much credibility with Adama and Roslin - and possibly result in them assigning the work to someone else to complete. Better to have the device in the hands of a man they can influence.

This is why Six reacted with such anger when Baltar attempted to withdraw from the work when pressed by Adama ([[Bastille Day]]) - and gave him just enough clues for him to realise how his detector might work. Now, with the detector nearing completion, the Cylons must control its use - and the best way to control its use is to control the man responsible for it.

Thus, the entire episode is engineered to achieve the two goals they desire: Baltar is moved closer to their influence through his acceptance of "God", and they ensure he can be manipulated and managed where the detector itself is concerned.

So, if this is the case - and Baltar's Six is indeed in contact with her corporeal "sister" (and possibly other humano-Cylons in the fleet) what does it mean for the the series? The most obvious answer to this question is that the Cylons are clearly in control of events, whether or not they are precisely aware of the fleet's location. They are in a position to manipulate individuals and events within the fleet, and thus move things towards the ultimate goal of their plan.

Thus, Six Degrees of Separation - as in the "game" upon which it is based - begins to map the lines that interconnect the various elements of the story. And the idea of interconnectedness is exemplified elsewhere in the segment – most noticeably around Valerii / Boomer. And on Caprica, the interconnectedness is entirely physical as she and Helo pretty much get it on – thus passing another milestone in the Cylon’s plan - pointing the finger ever more clearly towards the subjects of procreation and love.

On ''Galactica'', Boomer’s interconnectedness with other Cylons is palpably demonstrated in her reactions to the captured Raider. Watching the sensual response she exhibits as she touches and describes the Raider, one cannot help but wonder how much longer she can be treated without considerable suspicion. The events of [[Water]], her involvement in events surrounding [[Litmus]] - Tyrol at the very least must be more than a little concerned at what she might actually be; indeed, going on the spooked look he gives her as she comes close to foreplay with the Raider, he must be questioning her sanity, if nothing else.

What is interesting in these two story elements is they way they mesh together while effectively moving in opposite directions: as Valerii on Caprica moves towards fulfilment of her mission with Helo, possibly achieving more than her original creation / formation could have aspired to – a human / Cylon relationship born of love and respect, rather than of lust and ego, as was the case with Baltar / Six; Boomer on Galactica is beginning to spiral out of control: she has had at least one “black out” that she knows of, in which Galactica’s water supply was crippled; she’s almost blown herself up; she’s been accused of collusion with the Cylons; she’s broken up with her lover, come close to a near-orgasmic experience with a Cylon device – and now someone is accusing her directly of being a Cylon. Contrast the way in which Valerii’s coupling with Helo on Caprica played out against Boomer’s desperation in her bunk room – a very powerful counterpoint.

One other character is worthy of mention in this episode – [[Alessandro Juliani]] (Lieutenant Gaeta). So far he’s had little chance to shine, but in this episode, shine he does, providing exactly the right amount of emotional support for Baltar – while also providing us with one of the most subtle moments of humour witnessed in television. The scene in the lavatory must be watched to be appreciated – especially Gaeta’s feet, which speak more clearly than any of the whispered conversation shared with Baltar, and the results are a joy to watch – as is the continued conversation with the camera peeking into each of the cubicles.

Overall, a cleverly-constructed episode that is as entertaining as it is intriguing, thanks to the aforementioned lavatory scene between Baltar and Gaeta, which loses none of its power with repeated watching.

== Notes ==
*A week has passed since “Litmus”
*Boomer is accidentally revealing more and more of her Cylon nature
*Helo has passed another test on Caprica; he’s now sexually active with Valerii
*Gaeta admires Baltar and may be his one true friend on the Galactica
*Baltar appears very close to completing his Cylon detector
*Cylon Raiders may well be purpose-bred, semi-intelligent bio-machines
*The Colonials use QWERTY keyboards

== Noteworthy Dialogue ==

=== Baltar to Adama, confronting the accusation that he may be a traitor ===

Baltar: And I don’t like being accused of participating in the genocide of the human race based solely on the word of a woman whom I have already indicated to you may well be a Cylon agent...I did not conspire with the Cylons. I’m an innocent man who is being convicted in the court of public opinion without trial.

=== Kara's Recovery in the Sick Bay ===

[[Thrace, Kara|Kara Thrace]] is about to start walking after recovering from her knee injury, sustained in "[[You Can't Go Home Again]]". [[Doctor Cottle]] and [[Lee Adama]] are present.

Lee: C'mon Starbuck, you can do it. 
(Kara gets out of bed, using it as a support.) 
Lee (mockingly): Ah, that smarts. (walks over to Kara on crutches) That smarts. But I. Don't. Care. 
Kara: You don't care? 
Lee: I don't care. Because your pain is my entertainment. (hands crutches over to Kara) Your Crutches of Death, sir. Use them wisely. 
Kara: Shut up. 
[[Doctor Cottle]]: It's going to hurt like hell, but it's supposed to. 
Kara: (wryly) Thanks doc. 
(Kara starts out, slowly) 
Lee: No pain, no gain. No cliche left unturned as, as Kara Thrace returns to the world of the walking. Can she do it or will she fall on her ass? 
Kara: I swear to the Gods that I'm going to beat the crap out of both of you as soon as I get better... (pauses, retreats) No, I can't. 
Lee: Yes you can. You did it. 
Kara: No I can't. I can't. I can't. 
Cottle: You're not going to get better lying on your back. 
Kara: (getting on the bed) Oh, frak off. 
Lee: We'll just take a break for five minutes. 
Kara: I don't want to do it again. I want a pill. Now. Please. 
Cottle: Sorry, but we're weaning you off the magic pills starting today. Besides, I need them for myself. (ambles off)

== Official Statements ==




== Statistics ==

{{S1Cast}}

=== Guest Stars ===


*[http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Michael+Hogan Michael Hogan] as Colonel [[Saul Tigh]]
*[http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Tahmoh+Penikett Tahmoh Penikett] as Lieutenant [[Karl Agathon|Karl "Helo" Agathon]]
*[http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Aaron+Douglas Aaron Douglas] as Chief Petty Officer [[Galen Tyrol]]
*[http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Donnelly+Rhodes Donnelly Rhodes] as [[Doctor Cottle]]
*[http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Nicki+Clyne Nicki Clyne] as [[Cally]]
*[http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Christina+Schild Christina Schild] as [[Playa Kohn]]
*[http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Biski+Guggushe Biski Gugushe] as [[Eick]]



=== Writing & Direction ===

*Written by [http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Michael+Angeli Michael Angeli]
*Directed by [http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Robert+Young Robert Young]




=== Production Notes ===
*Series 1 (2004 / 2005)
*Production Number: 1.07
*Airdate Order: 7 (of 13)

=== First Run Air Dates & Releases ===

*UK Airdate: 29 November 2004 (Sky One)
*US Airdate: 18 February 2005 (Sci-Fi Channel)
*DVD Release: 28 March 2005 (UK)

== External Links ==
[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/episodes/season01/107/ "Six Degrees of Separation"] at scifi.com
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God (RDM)

2005-11-15T11:09:05Z

Strangefreeworld: /* Judeo-Christian References */

==In the Reimagined Series==

[[Image:Bscap059.jpg|thumb|"I am an instrument of God" --[[Baltar, Gaius|Baltar]] in [[The Hand of God]] Credit: SkyOne]]

In [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|the reimagined series]] of [[Battlestar Galactica]], [[Conoy, Leoben|Leoben]] and [[Mini-Series]]/internal [[Six]] espouse monotheistic views. Leoben's "we are all God" philosophy is similar to [[Wikipedia:Gnosticism|Gnosticism]]. Although the [[Colonials]] worship the [[Lords of Kobol]], even Colonials occasionally say singular "God," though it's often just as exclamations.

To avoid bias, quotes will do most of the talking here.

===Monotheistic References===

* "Oh, my God," "Thank God," or similar exclamations -- [[Adama, William|Commander Adama]] in the [[Mini-Series]], mother of baby in the [[Mini-Series]], [[Baltar, Gaius|Baltar]] in the [[Mini-Series]], the CAG in the [[Mini-Series]], Man on comlink to [[Roslin, Laura|Laura Roslin]] in the [[Mini-Series]], [[Valerii, Sharon|Sharon]] in [[Water]]

* "That, and God wanted me to help you." -- [[Six]], [[Mini-Series]]

* "We decided to play god - create life. When that life turned against us we comforted ourselves in the knowledge that it really wasn't our fault, not really. You cannot play god then wash your hands of the things that you've created." -- [[Adama, William|Commander Adama]], [[Mini-Series]]

* "Maybe the Cylons are God's retribution for our many sins. What if God decided he made a mistake and he decided to give souls to another creature, like the Cylons?" -- [[Conoy, Leoben|Leoben]], [[Mini-Series]]

* "God didn't create the Cylons. Man did. And I'm pretty sure we didn't include a soul in the programming." -- [[Adama, William|Commander Adama]], [[Mini-Series]]

* "And what I want most of all is for you to love me... Don't you understand? God is love." - internal [[Six]], [[Mini-Series]]

* "God has a plan for you, Gaius. He has a plan for everything and everyone. Gaius - are you even listening to me?" -- internal [[Six]], [[33]]

* "Procreation is one of God's commandments." -- internal [[Six]], [[33]]

* "God is watching out for you, Gaius." -- internal [[Six]], [[33]]

* "A connection, maybe, but not God. There is no God, or gods, singular or plural. There are no large, invisible men (or women, for that matter) in the sky, taking a personal interest in the fortunes of Gaius Baltar." -- [[Baltar, Gaius|Baltar]], [[33]]

* "Be careful. That which God gives He can also take away." -- internal [[Six]], [[33]]

* "It's God's punishment for your lack of faith." -- internal [[Six]], [[33]]

* "God's got nothing to do with this." -- [[Baltar, Gaius|Baltar]], [[33]]

* "It's God's choice. He wants you to repent." -- internal [[Six]], [[33]]

* "Pilots call me "Starbuck", you may refer to me as 'God'." -- [[Thrace, Kara|Starbuck]], [[Act of Contrition]]

* "God answers everyone's prayers." -- [[Conoy, Leoben|Leoben]], [[Flesh and Bone]]

* "God, you stink. Can we get some air in here? Between you and the humidity..." -- [[Conoy, Leoben|Leoben]] to [[Thrace, Kara|Starbuck]], [[Flesh and Bone]]

* "I was right. See, our faiths are similar but I look to one God, not to many." -- [[Conoy, Leoben|Leoben]], [[Flesh and Bone]]

* "To know the face of God is to know madness. I see the universe. I see the patterns. I see the foreshadowing that precedes every moment of every day. It's all there, I see it and you don't." -- [[Conoy, Leoben|Leoben]], [[Flesh and Bone]]

* "I am more than you could ever imagine. I am God." -- [[Conoy, Leoben|Leoben]], [[Flesh and Bone]]

* "I'm sorry, you're God? Wow... nice to meet ya. That's good, that's good. We'll give you a couple of minutes for that." -- [[Thrace, Kara|Starbuck]], [[Flesh and Bone]]

* "It's funny, isn't it? We're all God, Starbuck, all of us. I see the love that binds all living things together. ... I know that God loved you more than all other living creatures and you repaid his divine love with sin, with hate, corruption, evil. So then he decided to create the Cylons." -- [[Conoy, Leoben|Leoben]], [[Flesh and Bone]]

* "It's your chance to find out if you're really God or just a bunch of circuits with a bad haircut. ... Somebody's programmed you with a fairy tale of God and streams and life ever after but, somewhere in that hard drive that you call a brain is a beeping message: 'Error, error, does not compute. I don't have a soul, I have software. If I die, I'm gone.'" -- [[Thrace, Kara|Starbuck]], [[Flesh and Bone]]

* "And this time, your role...you have to deliver my soul unto God. Do it for me. It's your destiny, and mine." -- [[Conoy, Leoben|Leoben]], [[Flesh and Bone]]

* "He's not afraid to die. He's just afraid that his soul won't make it to God." -- [[Thrace, Kara|Starbuck]], [[Flesh and Bone]]

* "Oh good, I suppose God doesn't want me to destroy the base, because he's the Cylon god, right?", [[Baltar, Gaius|Baltar]], [[The Hand of God]]

* "God doesn't take sides. He only wants your love. Open your heart to him and he'll show you the way." -- internal [[Six]], [[The Hand of God]]

* "He didn't speak to me. God didn't speak to me. So I was totally lying. I just picked that spot at random." -- [[Baltar, Gaius|Baltar]], [[The Hand of God]]

* "He doesn't always speak in words, Gaius." -- internal [[Six]], [[The Hand of God]]

* "Are you telling me that God guided my finger to that target for some... arcane scriptural purpose?" -- [[Baltar, Gaius|Baltar]], [[The Hand of God]]

* "You are part of God's plan, Gaius." -- internal [[Six]], [[The Hand of God]]

* "So God wanted me to destroy the Cylon base." -- [[Baltar, Gaius|Baltar]], [[The Hand of God]]

* "You did well. You gave yourself over to Him." -- internal [[Six]], [[The Hand of God]]

* "Yes, suppose I did. Yes, there's-- there's really no other logical explanation for it. I was - [Six: Am.] - I am an instrument of God." -- [[Baltar, Gaius|Baltar]], [[The Hand of God]]

(There are more references; feel free to fill in the notable ones.)

===Judeo-Christian References===
[[Image:Baltar in crucifixion pose in ep13.jpg|thumb|Baltar in [[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]] Credit: SkyOne]]

The [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|reimagined series]] of [[Battlestar Galactica]] contains few references to [[Wikipedia:Judeo-Christian|Judeo-Christian]] concepts such as [[Wikipedia:Jesus|Jesus]] and [[Wikipedia:Satan|Satan]].

* "Jesus." -- Colonel Tigh, [[Mini-Series]]

* "I was... [Six: Am.] I am..." -- [[Baltar, Gaius|Baltar]], [[The Hand of God]] (full quote in previous section)

* "Come on, Jim. [[Gray, Wallace|Wallace Gray]] is no 'prince of darkness.'" -- Playa, [[Colonial Day]]

* "God is love" -- [[Six]], [[Mini-Series]], 1 John 4:16

The "I am" statement in [[The Hand of God]] is noteworthy, because of the self-description God gives to Moses in Exodus, [[Wikipedia:I am that I am|"I am that I am"]], and also Jesus has a series of "I am" statements in the Bible. The Bible contains over 300 "I am" statements. The Hebrew name for God, [[Wikipedia:Yahweh|Yahweh]], is derived from the Hebrew word for "I am" or "to be".

As one of [[The mystery of 33|mysteries of 33]], [[33]] is not only the title of an episode but also the commonly reported age for Jesus Christ when he was crucified, so this is another possible reference to Christ.

Finally, "Christ" itself is from the Greek "Χριστός," or "Christos," which means "messiah" in Greek. In the reimagined series, the [[Pythia|Pythian Prophecies]] tell of a messiah figure who will lead them to Earth.

Also, it should be noted that Ron D. Moore was questioned in his blog about Tigh's "Jesus!" exclamation, and said that it was just an ad lib by the actor that did not appear in the script.

==In the Original Series==

In the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|original series]] of [[Battlestar Galactica]], [[Lucifer]] was a name of an [[IL-series]] [[Cylon]] in [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|the original series]] of [[Battlestar Galactica]]. ''Lucifer'' is also a name for [[Wikipedia:Satan|Satan]].

[[Iblis|Count Iblis]] is a [[Wikipedia:Satan|Satan]]-like figure, and [[Wikipedia:Iblis|Iblis]] is the Satan of Islam.

Mormonism was reportedly an inspiration for some of the original series.

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==In the Reimagined Series==

[[Image:Bscap059.jpg|thumb|"I am an instrument of God" --[[Baltar, Gaius|Baltar]] in [[The Hand of God]] Credit: SkyOne]]

In [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|the reimagined series]] of [[Battlestar Galactica]], [[Conoy, Leoben|Leoben]] and [[Mini-Series]]/internal [[Six]] espouse monotheistic views. Leoben's "we are all God" philosophy is similar to [[Wikipedia:Gnosticism|Gnosticism]]. Although the [[Colonials]] worship the [[Lords of Kobol]], even Colonials occasionally say singular "God," though it's often just as exclamations.

To avoid bias, quotes will do most of the talking here.

===Monotheistic References===

* "Oh, my God," "Thank God," or similar exclamations -- [[Adama, William|Commander Adama]] in the [[Mini-Series]], mother of baby in the [[Mini-Series]], [[Baltar, Gaius|Baltar]] in the [[Mini-Series]], the CAG in the [[Mini-Series]], Man on comlink to [[Roslin, Laura|Laura Roslin]] in the [[Mini-Series]], [[Valerii, Sharon|Sharon]] in [[Water]]

* "That, and God wanted me to help you." -- [[Six]], [[Mini-Series]]

* "We decided to play god - create life. When that life turned against us we comforted ourselves in the knowledge that it really wasn't our fault, not really. You cannot play god then wash your hands of the things that you've created." -- [[Adama, William|Commander Adama]], [[Mini-Series]]

* "Maybe the Cylons are God's retribution for our many sins. What if God decided he made a mistake and he decided to give souls to another creature, like the Cylons?" -- [[Conoy, Leoben|Leoben]], [[Mini-Series]]

* "God didn't create the Cylons. Man did. And I'm pretty sure we didn't include a soul in the programming." -- [[Adama, William|Commander Adama]], [[Mini-Series]]

* "And what I want most of all is for you to love me... Don't you understand? God is love." - internal [[Six]], [[Mini-Series]]

* "God has a plan for you, Gaius. He has a plan for everything and everyone. Gaius - are you even listening to me?" -- internal [[Six]], [[33]]

* "Procreation is one of God's commandments." -- internal [[Six]], [[33]]

* "God is watching out for you, Gaius." -- internal [[Six]], [[33]]

* "A connection, maybe, but not God. There is no God, or gods, singular or plural. There are no large, invisible men (or women, for that matter) in the sky, taking a personal interest in the fortunes of Gaius Baltar." -- [[Baltar, Gaius|Baltar]], [[33]]

* "Be careful. That which God gives He can also take away." -- internal [[Six]], [[33]]

* "It's God's punishment for your lack of faith." -- internal [[Six]], [[33]]

* "God's got nothing to do with this." -- [[Baltar, Gaius|Baltar]], [[33]]

* "It's God's choice. He wants you to repent." -- internal [[Six]], [[33]]

* "Pilots call me "Starbuck", you may refer to me as 'God'." -- [[Thrace, Kara|Starbuck]], [[Act of Contrition]]

* "God answers everyone's prayers." -- [[Conoy, Leoben|Leoben]], [[Flesh and Bone]]

* "God, you stink. Can we get some air in here? Between you and the humidity..." -- [[Conoy, Leoben|Leoben]] to [[Thrace, Kara|Starbuck]], [[Flesh and Bone]]

* "I was right. See, our faiths are similar but I look to one God, not to many." -- [[Conoy, Leoben|Leoben]], [[Flesh and Bone]]

* "To know the face of God is to know madness. I see the universe. I see the patterns. I see the foreshadowing that precedes every moment of every day. It's all there, I see it and you don't." -- [[Conoy, Leoben|Leoben]], [[Flesh and Bone]]

* "I am more than you could ever imagine. I am God." -- [[Conoy, Leoben|Leoben]], [[Flesh and Bone]]

* "I'm sorry, you're God? Wow... nice to meet ya. That's good, that's good. We'll give you a couple of minutes for that." -- [[Thrace, Kara|Starbuck]], [[Flesh and Bone]]

* "It's funny, isn't it? We're all God, Starbuck, all of us. I see the love that binds all living things together. ... I know that God loved you more than all other living creatures and you repaid his divine love with sin, with hate, corruption, evil. So then he decided to create the Cylons." -- [[Conoy, Leoben|Leoben]], [[Flesh and Bone]]

* "It's your chance to find out if you're really God or just a bunch of circuits with a bad haircut. ... Somebody's programmed you with a fairy tale of God and streams and life ever after but, somewhere in that hard drive that you call a brain is a beeping message: 'Error, error, does not compute. I don't have a soul, I have software. If I die, I'm gone.'" -- [[Thrace, Kara|Starbuck]], [[Flesh and Bone]]

* "And this time, your role...you have to deliver my soul unto God. Do it for me. It's your destiny, and mine." -- [[Conoy, Leoben|Leoben]], [[Flesh and Bone]]

* "He's not afraid to die. He's just afraid that his soul won't make it to God." -- [[Thrace, Kara|Starbuck]], [[Flesh and Bone]]

* "Oh good, I suppose God doesn't want me to destroy the base, because he's the Cylon god, right?", [[Baltar, Gaius|Baltar]], [[The Hand of God]]

* "God doesn't take sides. He only wants your love. Open your heart to him and he'll show you the way." -- internal [[Six]], [[The Hand of God]]

* "He didn't speak to me. God didn't speak to me. So I was totally lying. I just picked that spot at random." -- [[Baltar, Gaius|Baltar]], [[The Hand of God]]

* "He doesn't always speak in words, Gaius." -- internal [[Six]], [[The Hand of God]]

* "Are you telling me that God guided my finger to that target for some... arcane scriptural purpose?" -- [[Baltar, Gaius|Baltar]], [[The Hand of God]]

* "You are part of God's plan, Gaius." -- internal [[Six]], [[The Hand of God]]

* "So God wanted me to destroy the Cylon base." -- [[Baltar, Gaius|Baltar]], [[The Hand of God]]

* "You did well. You gave yourself over to Him." -- internal [[Six]], [[The Hand of God]]

* "Yes, suppose I did. Yes, there's-- there's really no other logical explanation for it. I was - [Six: Am.] - I am an instrument of God." -- [[Baltar, Gaius|Baltar]], [[The Hand of God]]

(There are more references; feel free to fill in the notable ones.)

===Judeo-Christian References===
[[Image:Baltar in crucifixion pose in ep13.jpg|thumb|Baltar in [[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]] Credit: SkyOne]]

The [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|reimagined series]] of [[Battlestar Galactica]] contains few references to [[Wikipedia:Judeo-Christian|Judeo-Christian]] concepts such as [[Wikipedia:Jesus|Jesus]] and [[Wikipedia:Satan|Satan]].

* "Jesus." -- Colonel Tigh, [[Mini-Series]]

* "I was... [Six: Am.] I am..." -- [[Baltar, Gaius|Baltar]], [[The Hand of God]] (full quote in previous section)

* "Come on, Jim. [[Gray, Wallace|Wallace Gray]] is no 'prince of darkness.'" -- Playa, [[Colonial Day]]

* "God is love" -- [[Six]], [[Mini-Series]], 1 John 4:16

The "I am" statement in [[The Hand of God]] is noteworthy, because of the self-description God gives to Moses in Exodus, [[Wikipedia:I am that I am|"I am that I am"]], and also Jesus has a series of "I am" statements in the Bible. The Bible contains over 300 "I am" statements.

As one of [[The mystery of 33|mysteries of 33]], [[33]] is not only the title of an episode but also the commonly reported age for Jesus Christ when he was crucified, so this is another possible reference to Christ.

Finally, "Christ" itself is from the Greek "Χριστός," or "Christos," which means "messiah" in Greek. In the reimagined series, the [[Pythia|Pythian Prophecies]] tell of a messiah figure who will lead them to Earth.

Also, it should be noted that Ron D. Moore was questioned in his blog about Tigh's "Jesus!" exclamation, and said that it was just an ad lib by the actor that did not appear in the script.

==In the Original Series==

In the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|original series]] of [[Battlestar Galactica]], [[Lucifer]] was a name of an [[IL-series]] [[Cylon]] in [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|the original series]] of [[Battlestar Galactica]]. ''Lucifer'' is also a name for [[Wikipedia:Satan|Satan]].

[[Iblis|Count Iblis]] is a [[Wikipedia:Satan|Satan]]-like figure, and [[Wikipedia:Iblis|Iblis]] is the Satan of Islam.

Mormonism was reportedly an inspiration for some of the original series.

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