References to the Re-imagined Series

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Television

"Bones"

• Hodgins mentions Battlestar Galactica while naming sci-fi genre shows off to Zack in the episode "The Superhero in the Alley."

"Doctor Who"

• According Russel T. Davies's podcast for the episode "Last of the Time Lords", he admits that jumping a year forward was inspired by "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II".

"Gilmore Girls"

• Rory Gilmore jokingly accuses her grandmother of being a Cylon in one episode.
• In another episode, Rory uses the term "frakking."

"Heroes"

Student wearing a BSG T-shirt in the Heroes episode "Homecoming"

• The trailers for the NBC show Heroes re-use several tracks from Bear McCreary's BSG Season One Sountrack, primarily the song "Forgiven."
• In the ninth episode, "Homecoming", a high school student is briefly seen wearing a Battlestar Galactica t-shirt.

"The Office"

• The main character, Michael Scott (played by Steve Carell) mocks one of his employees (Dwight Schrute) for watching "Battleship Galaxy" every Friday night. The Office airs on NBC, which is owned by NBC Universal, the parent company of the SCI-FI Network.

"Robot Chicken"

• In "Rabits on a Roller Coaster", a 21 second skit entitled "Frakking Galactica" shows a scene from Battlestar Galactica where the use of the word "frak" is repeatedly overused, leaving an FCC member to ask "what the [censored] are they saying".
  • Of note, Tahmoh Penikett, Katee Sackhoff and Michael Hogan provide voices for their Galactica characters in the skit. Joss Whedon, creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Firefly, is a professed fan of the series and voices the character of the FCC member at the end of the skit.

"Tripping the Rift"

• One of the show's main characters is a robot seductress named Six, who has the appearance of a beautiful human woman.

"Veronica Mars"

• Veronica is introduced to the word "frak" in the Season 3 premiere and uses it later. It's said to be "the profanity of the future".
• Battlestar Galactica, Number Six, the Cylons, Cylon Raiders, "frak" and "so say we all" are all mentioned in the episode "Poughkeepsie, Tramps & Thieves".

Literature

"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.

External links

• IMDb's Movie Connections for Battlestar Galactica (2003)
• IMDb's Movie Connections for Battlestar Galactica (2004)