The Battlestar Galactica Drinking Game

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This page relates to heavy drinking (both of characters and wiki contributors) as a result of gaffes from the Re-imagined Series. For information that will improve gnashing of your teeth or suicidal tendencies, please watch "Galactica 1980."

Bottoms up, Colonel.

Other TV shows have had drinking games adapted from the venerable "Hi, Bob!" game, among others. The new "Battlestar Galactica" series has sadly failed to stop Battlestar Wiki's contributors from doing the same after noticing repeated plot points, characterizations, and other silliness.

You might consider creating your own Cylon Shooters for use in the game by following the recipe given by actors Grace Park and Tahmoh Penikett.

Take a drink every time...

...someone kills a baby or threatens to do so.

• Caprica-Six (Miniseries)
• Commander Adama, in Gaius Baltar's dream on Kobol (Scattered)
• Laura Roslin (Downloaded)

...Colonel Saul Tigh...

• ...drinks (Miniseries,Fragged,Pegasus, etc.).
• ...resolves to quit drinking.
• ...is drunk on duty (Fragged).
• ...questions Adama's orders.
• ...complains about not wanting his own command (Scattered).
• ...berates someone else for a flaw he has as well.
• ...gives a remarkably stupid order to the crew.
• Take a bonus drink if...
  • ...Tigh drinks as he "falls off the wagon."
  • ...a loss of life is involved (Resistance).
  • ...a beloved character needlessly suffers for it (Resistance).
  • ...Lee Adama is involved with the order (Fragged).
  • ...the Fleet tells him, collectively, to frak off (Fragged).
  • ...Commander Adama has to repair Tigh's frak-ups.
  • ...Tigh undermines his own reputation as a result (Miniseries, Fragged, Resistance).
• ...states or asks the obvious for purposes of exposition (Resurrection Ship, Part I).

...Ellen Tigh...

• ...makes sexual advances on someone other than Colonel Tigh (Colonial Day).
• ...brokers for power (Colonial Day).
• ...manipulates Colonel Tigh (Resistance).'

...Kara Thrace...

• ...demonstrates yet another talent.
  • Card Shark: "And the girl wins again! Another round?" (Water)
  • Sniper: "With all due respect, sir, I am the best shot in or out of the cockpit." (Bastille Day)
  • Painter: "You paint these, Kara? / Yeah." (Valley of Darkness)
  • Pro-level Pyramid Player: "I was scouted for the pros. Bum knee took me out of contention." (Resistance)
  • Poetry Buff: "You wouldn't know Caprican Poetry if it was hot-sidded across your helmet." / "'From the darkness you must fall - Failed and weak, to darkness all.' -Kataris, not one of his better works" (Final Cut)
• ...steps out of the box to...
  • ...mate two Vipers nose-to-nose in combat (Miniseries).
  • ...jury-rig an enemy fighter (You Can't Go Home Again).
  • ...outwit the Cylons via a clever plan of attack (The Hand of God, Resurrection Ship, Part I).
    • Take a bonus drink if this is because she knows the Cylons would never overlook such an obvious blind spot (The Hand of God, Pegasus).
  • ...kill or maim a Cylon with anything other than a gun (Flesh and Bone, Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II, The Farm).
• ...drinks as heavily as Col. Tigh (Scar, Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II).
• ...assaults someone who outranks her (Miniseries).
• ...is mistaken for a Cylon and nearly killed because of it (You Can't Go Home Again, Resistance, Home, Part I, Resurrection Ship, Part I)
• ...hops into bed on a barely-considered whim.
  • Gaius Baltar (Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I)
  • Samuel Anders (The Farm)
  • Lee Adama (Scar)
• ...starts to unduly fawn over someone mere days after meeting them.
  • Samuel Anders (Resistance)
  • Admiral Cain (Resurrection Ship, Part I, Part II)

...a copy of Number Six dies.

• Nuked (Miniseries, Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II)
  • Take another drink if the nuke scene is repeated again in flashback (33, Downloaded)
• Shot (33)
• Impaled (Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II)
• Extinguished (The Farm)

...Baltar's internal Six appears at an inopportune moment.

Take a bonus drink if...

• ...Baltar tries to subtly talk to both Six and real people at the same time (e.g. Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I: "I'm not your plaything!").
  • Take another drink if both Six and the "real" person or people Baltar is talking to respond the same way (e.g. "Plaything?").
• ...Six tries to engage Baltar in either sex or foreplay.
• ...Baltar makes awkward attempts at excusing his odd behavior.
• ...others comment on Baltar's sanity or lack thereof.
• ...Six appears while he's in the bathroom.
• ...Six appears after he's had sex with another woman.
• ...Six appears naked.

...a copy of Number Six becomes violent or threatens violence.

• Breaks a baby's neck (Miniseries as Caprica-Six)
• Screams in Baltar's face (Bastille Day as Baltar's internal Six)
• Beats the crap out of Caprica-Valerii (Litmus as an overseer)
• Chokes Baltar (Litmus as Baltar's internal Six)
• Smashes Baltar's face into a mirror (Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I as Baltar's internal Six)
• Kicks the hell out of Starbuck (Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II)
• Tackles Baltar (Resurrection Ship, Part I as Gina)
• Breaks a guard's neck (Resurrection Ship, Part II as Gina)
• Shoots Admiral Cain (Resurrection Ship, Part II as Gina)
• Chokes Baltar with his tie (Epiphanies)
• Shoves Baltar and bites his lip (Epiphanies as Gina)
• Cuts her own face ("Downloaded" as Caprica-Six)
• Bashes Number Three's head in with a rock ("Downloaded" as Caprica-Six)

Take two bonus drinks if she goes nuclear.

• Suicide-bombs Cloud 9 ("Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II" as Gina)

...anyone smokes (literally or figuratively).

• Gaius Baltar
• Dr. Cottle
• Kara Thrace
• Specialist Prosna
• Lee Adama
• Socinus (Scattered)

...any male character sticks it in a toaster.

• Helo (Six Degrees of Separation)
• Gaius Baltar (Miniseries, Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II)
• Galen Tyrol (Miniseries, Litmus)
• A large number of men from battlestar Pegasus' crew (Pegasus)
• Alistair Thorne

...Helo acts like an idiot.

• ...fails to notice his robot girlfriend's glowing spine. (Six Degrees of Separation)
• ...fails to realize his inexplicably nauseous robot girlfriend is pregnant (The Hand of God).
• ...shoots his pregnant robot girlfriend (Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I).
• ...lets his pregnant robot girlfriend jack Starbuck's spaceship (Scattered).
• ...is surprised that everyone wants to throw his pregnant robot girlfriend out an airlock (Home, Part I).
• ...fails to anticipate territory issues with his pregnant robot girlfriend's copy's former boyfriend (Home, Part II).

...Chief Tyrol acts like a moron.

• ...makes out with a lieutenant against regulations - who happens to be a sleeper copy of Helo's pregnant robot girlfriend.
• ...lies about making out with his robot girlfriend.
• ...lies when he says he never loved his robot girlfriend.
• ...chews out of his crew who dare to show concern about his feelings about his robot girlfriend - or anything else, for that matter (Miniseries, Flight of the Phoenix).
• ...glares at or curses Colonel Tigh.
  • ...or anyone else for that matter ("If I scratched everyone who popped off at the chief the cooks could be flying the planes" - Lee Adama, "Final Cut")

...Bill Adama...

• ...uses his Glare of Death.
  • Bonus drink if Cottle deflects it with his own Scowl of Intense Disapproval (The Captain's Hand).
• ...stomps down Galactica's hallways.
• ...waxes philosophically.
• ...brings up his lawyer father.
• ...expresses sympathy for the Cylons.
• ...expresses an enthusiastic attitude toward killing Cylons.
• Take a bonus drink if it is by trying kill a Cylon himself
  • Finish the drink completely if he tries to kill the same Cylon he expressed sympathy for in a previous episode.
• ...agrees with, argues with, deposes, or kisses President Roslin.
• ...appears on screen sporting a moustache.
• ...does something "captainly", like crushing walnuts in his hand or building a model ship.
• ...uses military action to resolve a situation. (See the above section if Adama's decision to use military action is recklessly dumb.)
• ...makes a recklessly stupid command decision.
  • Counterattacking the Cylons (Miniseries)
  • Wasting half the fleet's fuel looking for Starbuck (You Can't Go Home Again)
  • Arresting President Roslin (Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II)
  • Sending Marines to rescue Helo and the Chief from Pegasus (Pegasus)
  • Arranging for the assassination of Admiral Cain (Resurrection Ship, Part I)
  • Bonus drinks if a woman tries to reason with Adama.

• Roslin tells Adama, "The war is over, we lost", and "We need to start having babies" (Miniseries)
• Dualla tells Adama, "It's time to put the fleet back together" (Home, Part I)
• Roslin tells Adama, "She is dangerous, and the only thing that you can do is hit her before she hits you," (Resurrection Ship, Part I)
• Sharon tells Adama, "You said you never asked yourself why you deserve to survive." (Resurrection Ship, Part II)

• Finish your drink completely when, not if, Adama ultimately relents, echoing that woman's words to his officer(s).

...People get away with things — major disciplinary problems are ignored or set aside.

• Tyrol gets away with his hidden affair with Boomer, even when it leads to a security flaw that allows a Cylon suicide bomber to attack the ship (Litmus)
• Starbuck gets away with stealing and ultimately losing Galactica's captured Cylon Raider. (Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I)
• Boomer gets away with trying to kill herself and ends up on a vitally important mission (Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II)
• Baltar gets away with murdering Crashdown (Fragged)
• Apollo gets away with pulling a gun on Tigh (Scattered) and helping Roslin escape (Home, Part II)
• Helo gets away with pulling a gun on Apollo (Home, Part I)
• President Roslin ultimately gets away with subverting the boundary between military and civilian government (Home, Part II).
• Commander Adama ultimately gets away with subverting the boundary between military and civilian government (Litmus, Home, Part II).
• Kat gets away with getting high on drugs during flight (reinstated in "Pegasus")
• Starbuck gets away with (and gets promoted for) stealing the Blackbird to fly a photo recon mission that her CAG specifically took her off of. (Resurrection Ship, Part I)
• Lee Adama gets away with law enforcement by summary execution (Black Market)
• Lee gets away with making repeated visits to a prositute (Black Market)
• Kat gets away with punching Starbuck in the mouth (Scar)
• Lee gets away with an affair with Dee, a fellow active duty soldier (The Captain's Hand)
• Tyrol gets away with beating the crap out of someone with nothing more than a stern talking to from a priest (Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I).

...Zarek makes a gambit for power...

• ...but loses.
  • Colonial Day
  • Home, Part I
  • Home, Part II
• ...and succeeds.
  • Bastille Day
  • Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II

...Lee Adama...

• ...uses one of his dad's phrases ("Be careful out there", "roll the hard six")
• ...completely oversteps his authority and/or commits mutiny
• ...acts self-righteous or angsty towards his dad (Miniseries, Bastille Day, Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II, Resurrection Ship, Part II)
• ...has a near-death experience.
  • Nearly killed by Cylon Raiders (Miniseries, "Resurrection Ship, Part II")
  • Almost left for dead (Miniseries, "Resurrection Ship, Part II")
  • Almost killed by a criminal mob or elements thereof ("Bastille Day,", "Home, Part II," "Black Market").
  • Almost killed by Cylon Centurions ("Valley of Darkness," "Home, Part I")
  • Almost killed by gangters. (Black Market)
• ...shows angst about anything, anything at all (Miniseries, "33," "Water," "Act of Contrition," "The Hand of God," "Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II," "Scattered," "Valley of Darkness," "Fragged," "Resistance," "Resurrection Ship, Part II," "Final Cut," "Black Market," "Scar," "The Captain's Hand," "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II").

Miscellaneous

• ...Billy and Dee stare at each other like two teenagers but never actually do anything.

• ...Someone gets promoted (Just pick an episode.)
  • Take two drinks if someone is promoted twice in one episode (Major Lee Adama to Commander Lee Adama in "The Captain's Hand").

• ...CIC bursts into applause. (Miniseries, You Can't Go Home Again, Hand of God, Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II, The Farm, Home, Part I, Resurrection Ship, Part II)
  • Bonus drink if the applause proceeds an assassination attempt (Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II, Resurrection Ship, Part II)

• ...Six comes up with some vague mystical interpretation of Baltar's travails.

• ...Elosha comes up with some vague mystical interpretation of Roslin's travails.

• ...Roslin comes up with some vague mystical interpretation of the Fleet's travails.

• ...Leoben comes up with some vague mystical interpretation of Starbuck's travails.

• ...Gaeta says, "Yes, sir." (On this one, alone, most of us would need a "commercial break" after one episode...)

• ...Apollo's modesty is thwarted by the smallest towel in the fleet.

• ...Laura Roslin uses her Stare of You-Gotta-Be-Frakking-Kidding-Me.

• ...A Cylon says "By your command".

• ...Jammer says something that hints that he may be a Cylon.

• ...A never-before-seen guest star turns out to be a Cylon
  • Simon (The Farm)
  • Number Three (Final Cut)
  • Cavil (Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I, Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II)

Production

• ...Michael Rymer's camera makes a full 360° revolution.
  • In this case, everyone in the room must spin around until the scene is over.
• ...Michael Rymer cross-cuts between two nearly identical scenes. (Pegasus, Resurrection Ship, Part I)
  • In this case, link arms with someone else and take a shot together.
• ...the producers re-use stock special effects footage.
  • ...when you spot the "USS Enterprise" lurking in the Fleet.
  • ...an establishing shot of Galactica from the side, surrounded by the Fleet.
  • ...an establishing shot of Galactica from the top.
  • ...an establishing shot of Pegasus from the side.
  • ...the civilian fleet jump from the Miniseries.
  • ...the Viper Launch sequence.
  • ...Take another drink of the the stock footage leads to logic gaps.
• ...Bear McCreary re-uses stock musical cues.
  • The Number Six/Cylon leitmotif ("ding..ding-ding..ding, ding...ding-ding...ding...")
  • "Bloodshed" (the Adama death theme from Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II) in The Farm, Pegasus and Resurrection Ship, Part II
  • "Prelude to War" in the Resurrection Ship, Part II battle sequence
  • The "Destiny/Baltar's Dream" leitmotif
• ...Bear McCreary finds some excuse to use the Stu Phillips theme from the original series ("Colonial Anthem").
  • Miniseries (Twice)
  • Final Cut
• ...Bear McCreary re-uses music from Richard Gibbs' Miniseries soundtrack.
• ...Bear McCreary throws in some new musical influences out of nowhere.
  • Hindu prayer - UK/Season Two opening
  • Celtic folk song - "Wander My Friends" / "A Good Lighter" / "Reuniting the Fleet"
  • Italian pseudo-opera - "Battlestar Operatica"
  • Elevator music - "Battlestar Muzaktica"
  • Heavy metal - "Standing in the Mud" / "Black Market"
  • Orchestral piece - "The Shape of Things to Come" / "Passacaglia" / "Allegro" / "A Promise to Return"
  • Electric Violin / Thundering Bass - "Destiny" / "Baltar's Dream"
  • Classical Violin - "Roslin and Adama" / "Roslin Confesses"
  • Piano - "Metamorphosis One" / "One Year Later"
  • Guitar solo - "Pegasus" / "Something Dark is Coming"

...Kara Thrace and Lee Adama...

• ...stare at each other strangely for non-work-related reasons.
• ...exchange blows
• ...kiss
  • Take a bonus drink if they both kiss and exchange blows.