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

Film

Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner

Mentioned once.

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

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

Futurama: Bender's Big Score

Features a "Cylon War Memorial Makeout Point."

Futurama: The Beast With A Billion Backs

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

God Bless America

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

The House Bunny

Natalie mentions this to Colby while eating a hot dog

Lucky Number Slevin

A Battlestar Galactica poster is seen.

Nexus Generation: Fans & Filmmakers

Cylons are mentioned as being influenced by Blade Runner

Sydney White

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

The Terminators

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

Related imagery

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

Music

Battlestar

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

Jonathan Coulton

Jonathan Coulton wrote a song entitled "Battle of Galactica"^[1], possibly named after the ride of the same name. It is sung to the theme of the original Battlestar Galactica or the Re-imagined Series' Colonial anthem.^[2]

The Crashtones

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

Depeche Mode Remix

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

Incubus

Incubus has made a song entitled "Battlestar Scralatchica".

Live Performances

Lewis Black: Luther Burbank Performing Arts Center Blues

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

Television

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

Literature

Avatars Trilogy

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

More Information Than You Require

John Hodgman claims that the original Battlestar Galactica was a "re-imagining" of the classic Battlestar Galactica radio program of the 1920s.^[3]

Star Trek

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

Star Wars

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

Comics

Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight

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

Deadpool

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

Star Wars

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

Video games

FreeSpace 2

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

Webcomics/Comic strips

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

Podcasts

StarTalk Live

On Neil deGrasse Tyson's radio show StarTalk Radio, comedian Leighann Lord pretends to be a computer voice saying "Launch Colonial Viper 1."^[4]

Thrilling Adventure Hour

In the Beyond Belief episode "Teenagers of the Corn", Frank Doyle agrees with "So say we all" in response to his wife Sadie's prettiness.^[5]

Radio

The Hour of Slack

In The Hour of Slack episode #1361, performance artist Zero Boy said Cylons overruled a Klingon criminal he was paid to follow.^[6]

Others

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

External links

References

↑ Battle of Galactica (backup available on Archive.org) (in ). (4 November 2008). Retrieved on 15 December 2008.
↑ thephoenix.com/. Live at the Coolidge Corner. The Phoenix. 22 October 2008. Podcast accessed on 15 December, 2008 Seek to: 37:00. Total running time: 1:01:10. (POD)
↑ Hodgman, John. More Information Than You Require. ISBN 9780525950349, p. 232.
↑ http://startalkradio.net/. Holiday Lights. StarTalk Radio. 19 December 2010. Podcast accessed on 30 January, 2011 Seek to: 34:34. Total running time: 56:57. (POD)
↑ http://thrillingadventurehour.com/. Teenagers of the Corn. Thrilling Adventure Hour. 19 March 2012. Podcast accessed on 11 November, 2012 Seek to: 6:42. Total running time: 21:36. (POD)
↑ Hour of Slack #1361 - The ASK DR. HAL Show with Drummond, Stang & Zero Boy Pt. 1 of 2 (backup available on Archive.org) . Retrieved on 11 June 2012.

[JoCopedia-1] Battle of Galactica (backup available on Archive.org) (in ). (4 November 2008). Retrieved on 15 December 2008.

[2] thephoenix.com/. Live at the Coolidge Corner. The Phoenix. 22 October 2008. Podcast accessed on 15 December, 2008 Seek to: 37:00. Total running time: 1:01:10. (POD)

[3] Hodgman, John. More Information Than You Require. ISBN 9780525950349, p. 232.

[4] ttp://startalkradio.net/. Holiday Lights. StarTalk Radio. 19 December 2010. Podcast accessed on 30 January, 2011 Seek to: 34:34. Total running time: 56:57. (POD)

[5] ttp://thrillingadventurehour.com/. Teenagers of the Corn. Thrilling Adventure Hour. 19 March 2012. Podcast accessed on 11 November, 2012 Seek to: 6:42. Total running time: 21:36. (POD)

[6] Hour of Slack #1361 - The ASK DR. HAL Show with Drummond, Stang & Zero Boy Pt. 1 of 2 (backup available on Archive.org) . Retrieved on 11 June 2012.

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+== Film ==
-*Rory Gilmore jokingly accuses her grandmother of being a Cylon in one episode.
-*On another episode, Rory uses the term "frakking."
+=== ''Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner''===
+* Mentioned once.
+===''Deck-A-Rep: The True Nature of Rick Deckard''===
+* [[Edward James Olmos]] calls Deckard a Cylon instead of a Replicant.
+=== ''[[w:Futurama: Bender's Big Score|Futurama: Bender's Big Score]]'' ===
+*Features a "[[Cylon War]] Memorial Makeout Point."
+=== ''[[w:Futurama: The Beast With A Billion Backs|Futurama: The Beast With A Billion Backs]]'' ===
+*A robot with features from the re-imagined Centurion works the capstan on the pirate spaceship during Bender's attack on the alien Yivo. Later the same robot is seen fighting in the background, using needle/razor fingered hands as on the re-imagined Centurion.''
+=== ''[[w:God Bless America (film)|God Bless America]]'' ===
+*The main character Frank Murdoch assumes that his accomplice Chloe liked the "new ''Battlestar Galactica''".
+===''[[w:The House Bunny|The House Bunny]]''===
+* Natalie mentions this to Colby while eating a hot dog
+=== ''[[w:Lucky Number Slevin|Lucky Number Slevin]]'' ===
+*A ''Battlestar Galactica'' poster is seen.
+===''Nexus Generation: Fans & Filmmakers''===
+* Cylons are mentioned as being influenced by Blade Runner
+=== ''[[w:Sydney White|Sydney White]]'' ===
+*One of the characters is offended by the joke that [[William Adama|Adama]] is a Cylon.
+=== ''[[w:The Terminators (film)|The Terminators]]'' ===
+*Some robots are programmed to think there are human. (like  [[Final Five]], [[Sharon Valerii]])
+*There is [[Airlock]] in this film.
+=== Related imagery ===
+<gallery mode="slideshow">
+Image:BeastBillionBacksCylon.jpg|Robot with neck cowl and eye shape/color in ''Beast With A Billion Backs''.
+Image:CylonWarMemorialMakeoutPoint.png|Cylon War Memorial Makeout Point in ''Bender's Big Score''.
+</gallery>
+== Music ==
+=== Battlestar ===
+*[[w:Gabriel Hogan|Gabriel Hogan]], son of [[Michael Hogan|Michael]] and [[Susan Hogan]] ([[Saul Tigh]] and [[Doyle Franks]]) is involved with a band named Battlestar in honor of his father's involvement on ''Battlestar Galactica''.
+=== [[w:Jonathan Coulton|Jonathan Coulton]] ===
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+| url = http://thephoenix.com/x/hodgman.mp3
+| title = Live at the [[w:Coolidge Corner|Coolidge Corner]]
+| website = The Phoenix
+| host= thephoenix.com/
+| date = 22 October 2008
+| accessdate = 15 December
+| accessyear = 2008
+| timestamp = 37:00
+| totalrunning = 1:01:10
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+=== The Crashtones ===
+*[[Samuel Witwer]]'s rock band, the [http://www.samwitwer.com/ The Crashtones] takes it name from the callsign of his character in the re-imagined series: [[Alex Quartararo|Alex "Crashdown" Quartararo]].
+=== [[w:Depeche Mode Remix|Depeche Mode Remix]] ===
+*Remixes for their album [[w:Playing the Angel|Playing the Angel]] features one for the song "[[w:Precious (Depeche Mode song)|Precious]]" using dialogue from [[Number Six]] and [[Gaius Baltar]] from the episode "[[Six Degrees of Separation]]".
+=== [[w:Incubus (band)|Incubus]] ===
+*Incubus has made a song entitled "Battlestar Scralatchica".
+== Live Performances ==
+=== [[amazon:B000784WDG|Lewis Black: ''Luther Burbank Performing Arts Center Blues'']] ===
+*On track six of the CD, entitled "Justin and Janet," [[w:Lewis Black|Lewis Black]] describes [[w:Janet Jackson|Janet Jackson]]'s costume at the [[w:Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show controversy|controversial 2004 Halftime Show]] as being the uniform of the captain of the ''Battlestar Galactica''.
+== Television ==
+See [[References to the Re-imagined Series (Television)]].
+== Literature ==
+=== ''[http://www.harpercollinschildrens.com/HarperChildrens/Kids/BookDetail.aspx?isbn13=9780060750299 Avatars]'' Trilogy ===
+*Several characters in the ''Avatars'' trilogy by [[w:Tui T. Sutherland|Tui T. Sutherland]] reference ''Battlestar Galactica'' on several occasions.  The brothers Gus and Andrew recall watching the entire series on DVD (which has been off the air for three years in the book's time frame of December 2012), Andrew wishes to name his first born daughter [[Kara Thrace|Kara]], and Gus uses derivatives of [[frak]] on occasion.
+=== ''[[w:More Information Than You Require|More Information Than You Require]]'' ===
+*[[John Hodgman]] claims that the original ''Battlestar Galactica'' was a "re-imagining" of the classic ''Battlestar Galactica'' radio program of the 1920s.<ref>{{cite book
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+=== ''[[memoryalpha:Star Trek|Star Trek]]'' ===
+*In the ''[[memoryalpha:Vanguard|Vanguard]]'' novel ''[[memoryalpha:Reap the Whirlwind|Reap the Whirlwind]]'' by [[memoryalpha:David Mack|David Mack]], two minor characters are named "Agent [[Mark Verheiden|Verheiden]]" and "Agent [[Anne Cofell Saunders|Cofell]]". Moreover, a Captain [[Michael Rymer|Rymer]] is mentioned.
+=== ''[[wookiepedia:Star Wars|Star Wars]]'' ===
+*In the ''[[wookiepedia:Legacy of the Force|Legacy of the Force]]'' novel ''[[wookiepedia:Invincible (novel)|Invincible]]'' on page 85, [[wookiepedia:Leia Organa Solo|Leia Solo]] suggests distracting [[wookiepedia:Darth Caedus|Darth Caedus]] during a battle by sending him an episode of ''[[wookiepedia:BattleSun Odyssey|BattleSun Odyssey]]''.
+== Comics ==
+=== ''[[w:Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight|Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight]]'' ===
+*In issue #18 of ''[[w:Time of Your Life (Buffy comic)|Time of Your Life]]'', the swear word frak is used.
+=== ''[[w:Deadpool (comics)|Deadpool]]'' ===
+*Deadpool and [[w:Weasel (comics)|Weasel]] catch up as friends by watching [[w:TiVo|TiVo'd]] episodes of "Battlestar Galactica".
+=== ''[[wookiepedia:List of comics|Star Wars]]'' ===
+*The swear word, frak, makes an appearance in the comic [[Wookiepedia:Star Wars Legacy 2: Broken, Part 2|Star Wars Legacy 2: Broken, Part 2]].
+== Video games ==
+=== ''[[w:FreeSpace 2|FreeSpace 2]]'' ===
+*One of the Vasudan pilots respond to orders with the phrase, "[[By your command]]".
+== Webcomics/Comic strips ==
+See [[References to the Re-imagined Series (Webcomics)]].
+== Podcasts ==
+=== StarTalk Live ===
+*On [[w:Neil deGrasse Tyson|Neil deGrasse Tyson]]'s radio show ''StarTalk Radio'', comedian Leighann Lord pretends to be a computer voice saying "Launch Colonial Viper 1."<ref>{{cite podcast
+| url = http://startalkradio.net/media/audio/ST203SethMacFarlane.mp3
+| title = Holiday Lights
+| website = StarTalk Radio
+| host= http://startalkradio.net/
+| date = 19 December 2010
+| accessdate = 30 January
+| accessyear = 2011
+| timestamp = 34:34
+| totalrunning = 56:57
+}}</ref>
+=== ''[[w:Thrilling Adventure Hour|Thrilling Adventure Hour]]'' ===
+*In the [http://www.nerdist.com/2012/03/thrilling-adventure-hour-63-beyond-belief-teenagers-of-the-corn/ ''Beyond Belief'' episode "Teenagers of the Corn"], Frank Doyle agrees with "So say we all" in response to his wife Sadie's prettiness.<ref>{{cite podcast
+| url = http://traffic.libsyn.com/thrillingadventurehour/TAH63_Beyond_Belief__Teenagers_of_the_Corn_.mp3
+| title = Teenagers of the Corn
+| website = Thrilling Adventure Hour
+| host= http://thrillingadventurehour.com/
+| date = 19 March 2012
+| accessdate = 11 November
+| accessyear = 2012
+| timestamp = 6:42
+| totalrunning = 21:36
+}}</ref>
-==="[[wikipedia:Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]"===
+== Radio ==
-[[Image:BSG T-shirt Heroes.JPG|thumb|right|Student wearing a BSG T-shirt in the Heroes episode "Homecoming"]]
+=== ''[[w:The Hour of Slack|The Hour of Slack]]'' ===
-*The trailers for the NBC show ''Heroes'' re-use several tracks from [[Bear McCreary]]'s [[Soundtrack (Season 1)|BSG Season One Sountrack]], primarily the song "Forgiven."
+*In ''The Hour of Slack'' episode #1361, performance artist Zero Boy said Cylons overruled a Klingon criminal he was paid to follow.<ref>{{cite_web|url=http://www.subgenius.com/ts/hos_logs/Hour_of_Slack_1361.html|title=Hour of Slack #1361 - The ASK DR. HAL Show with Drummond, Stang & Zero Boy Pt. 1 of 2|date=|accessdate=11 June 2012|last=|first=|format=|language=English}}</ref>
-*In the ninth episode, "[[wikipedia:Homecoming (Heroes)|Homecoming]]", a high school student is briefly seen wearing a ''Battlestar Galactica'' t-shirt.
-==="[[wikipedia:The Office (US TV series)|The Office]]"===
+== Others ==
-*The main character, Michael Scott (played by [[wikipedia:Steve Carell|Steve Carell]]) mocks one of his employees ([[wikipedia:Dwight Schrute|Dwight Schrute]]) for watching "Battleship Galaxy" every Friday night.  ''The Office'' airs on NBC, which is owned by [[wikipedia:NBC Universal|NBC Universal]], the parent company of the [[wikipedia:Sci Fi Channel|SCI-FI Network]].
+*Entering "about:robots" in the [http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/ Firefox 3] address bar displays a few wise words about robots. After references to ''[[w:The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951 film)|The Day the Earth Stood Still]]'', [[w:Three Laws of Robotics|Asimov's first law of robotics]], ''[[w:Blade Runner|Blade Runner]]'', ''[[w:The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy|The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'' and ''[[w:Futurama|Futurama]]'' it concludes with "And they have a plan."
+*In the humorous browser-based MMORPG [[w:Kingdom of Loathing|Kingdom of Loathing]], the [http://kol.coldfront.net/thekolwiki/index.php/El_Vibrato_helmet El Vibrato helmet] is described as allowing "a weird blue light sweeping back and forth where your eyes should be, like some sort of depressed Cylon."
+*[[w:The Onion|The Onion's]] [http://www.theonion.com/content/node/88218 Friday 17th 2008 mock radio news broadcast] announced the launch of ''Battlestar Galactica: Miami.''
+*Some episodes of the ''Star Trek'' audio series [http://www.darkerprojects.com/section31.php ''Star Trek: The Section 31 Files''] uses music from ''Battlestar Galactica'', though no references to its story.
-==="[[wikipedia:Tripping the Rift|Tripping the Rift]]"===
+==External links==
-*One of the show's main characters is a robot seductress named Six, who has the appearance of a beautiful human woman.
+*[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0314979/movieconnections IMDb's Movie Connections for ''Battlestar Galactica'' (2003)]
+*[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0407362/movieconnections IMDb's Movie Connections for ''Battlestar Galactica'' (2004)]
+*[http://www.esnips.com/doc/eab23b65-0655-476c-a8eb-7ee1db70698f/Precious%20%5BDisco%20mix%5D%20-%20Depeche%20Mode Depeche Mode's "Precious" (Disco Mix) mp3]
-==="[[wikipedia:Veronica Mars|Veronica Mars]]"===
+== References ==
-*Veronica is introduced to the word "frak" in the Season 3 premiere and uses is later. It's said to be "the profanity of the future".
+{{reflist}}
-*''Battlestar Galactica'', Number Six, the Cylons, Cylon Raiders, "frak" and "so say we all" are all mentioned in the episode "[[wikipedia:Poughkeepsie, Tramps and Thieves|Poughkeepsie, Tramps & Thieves]]".
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