Uniforms (TOS)

This page covers uniforms of the Colonial military in the Original Series.

Colonial Military

Warrior uniforms

The standard Colonial Warrior uniform consists of a beige tunic and pants. An arm patch will be affixed to their right arm and there will be one or two pins around the neckline. Warriors may or may not wear a brown jacket, which will also have an arm patch on the right and buttons on either side of the collar. The tunic is fastened using valcron (velcro) which runs between the shoulderblade and the wearer's left breast (Saga of a Star World). This uniform has a black belt with a golden buckle; a separate pistol-belt is worn, with a leg belt to keep the holster firmly affixed to the wearer's leg.

Warriors who pilot Vipers will wear a gravity suit underneath their uniforms to protect them from gravitational forces (Lost Planet of the Gods, Part I). Apparently, this isn't so much a concern for shuttle pilots.

Variants

There are a few variants of the Warrior uniform. The first variant, which is worn by central characters like Apollo, Starbuck and Boomer, has two buttons worn left and right on the neckline. A checkered embroidering is around both the neck and three to five inches beneath the neck. This variant also includes embroidering around the tunic's cuffs; the embroidering has a gold stripe with checkered embroidering both sides of this stripe. The jackets also have this embroidering.

Cain's command uniform

Cain's modified Warrior uniform

The uniform of Commander Cain is based off the full Warrior uniform. Cain's uniform includes touches of flair in the form of embroidered cuffs, embroidered braid-like lacing around the shoulder pads, a pin on the left chest of the jacket, a neckerchief, and an gold embroidered stripe at his pant seams. His pants themselves are of the same material as the jacket and not the beige pants worn by other warriors.

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  Cain's embroidered jacket and tunic cuffs
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  Cain's command emblem
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  Cain's embroidered shoulder pad

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  The emblem/pin on Cain's jacket

Blue Officer uniform

The blue-colored officers uniform is similar in material and texture to the beige tunic worn by lower officers and Warriors. The uniforms are dark blue and officers of high rank, such as Colonel Tigh and Commander Adama, have two pins affixed to their collar on the left and right. They have a silver checkered band around their neck, as well as this same checkered pattern three inches from the neckline running around the upper chest and back, above that pattern is an embroidered stripe of silver. In addition, the higher-ranked personnel also have embroidered cuffs with the silver stripe and adjoining checkered patterns.

With the exception of Colonel Tolan of Pegasus (The Living Legend, Part II), Galactica officers wearing this uniform do not have an arm patch.

Officers of lesser rank, such as Athena and Omega, have one pin affixed to the middle of their collar.

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  Tigh's uniform upper tunic.
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  Adama's uniform with the command medallion.
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  Athena's uniform. Note the single pin.

Honor guards

As seen in "The Living Legend, Part I", honor guards wear the standard beige tunic and pants, with a brown belt and gloves with a gold trimming near the glove's gauntlet opening. Honor guards are not armed with laser pistols and have only one pin, which is attached to the center of the tunic's collar. There are also gold braids that run diagonally above the left and right breast of the tunic.

In a later episode, "War of the Gods, Part II", Baltar was flanked by Galactica's honor guards. These honor guards differed slightly in the fact that they were armed with laser pistols and Galactica's patch was on the gauntlet of the glove. The braiding running above the breast of the tunic is also missing.

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  A member of Cmdr. Cain's honor guard at attention near the doorway.
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  A member of Galactica's armed honor guard.

Dress uniforms

For formal ceremonies Warriors wear their a cape over their tunic. The tunic is sometimes decorated with additional ornamentation on the chest (Take the Celestra).

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  Colonel Tigh and Commander Kronus in dress uniforms.
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  Starbuck's dress uniform.

Battle fatigues

While Warriors still use their typical uniforms for ground assaults, there are special occasions where Colonial strike teams need to wear different uniforms, depending on the surface conditions ("The Gun on Ice Planet Zero, Part I", "The Gun on Ice Planet Zero, Part II") and the type of attack (The Living Legend, Part II). Neither fatigues seen in the series are meant for stealth, seeing as the Cylons are incapable of shooting anyone directly or simple capture operations, unless the story permits.

In situations requiring travel in artic conditions, members of Colonial expedition teams will wear hooded parkas of a light purple color with gloves. The clothing underneath is the same as a typical Warrior uniform, sans the normal jacket. As part of this uniform, the warrior will also wear breather masks and carry backpacks of different colors.

On the parka, arm patches are on both sides (as opposed to the single side on Warrior jackets) with the normal ship patch as well as a bullet-shaped color patch roughly two inches beneath. These color patches are unique to the wearer, possibly for identification purposes in incliment conditions. As with the warrior jackets, the parka is fastened with a system of six pairs of interlocking buckles (The Gun on Ice Planet Zero, Part I).

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  Thane and Wolfe in arctic gear.
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  Captain Apollo in the arctic jacket.

When dropping from a low-altitude orbit, Warriors will wear black leather suits with matching gloves. In the case of the attack on Gamoray, the team may wield two laser pistols and strap hand mines around their midriff (The Living Legend, Part II), although this does not appear to be standard practice during any other land-based assault. Black helmets are worn during landing, but are later discarded after landing.

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  Starbuck in a full strike suit, wielding two pistols.
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  Strike team landing on Gamoray.

Maintenance uniforms

A maintenance uniform.

Viper bay maintenance uniforms are orange jumpsuits with the ship's patch on the left breast. Typically, maintenance personnel wear bronze-colored helmets (with the ship's patch in the middle of the forehead), black gauntlet gloves, and plastic goggles that cover the entire eye-area of the face.

Insignia, pins and patches

Each battlestar has its own unique arm patches and pins.

Galactica

Galactica has a set of emblems. The ship's seal is a circle with a collection of small gold triangles in a circular formation.

The pins are shaped in the form of a four-point star.

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  Adama's uniform medallion

Pegasus

Pegasus has its own set of emblems. The ship's seal is a red shield with black trim, with a sword flanked adorned with wings in white. One may assume that the wings are those of the winged creature for which the ship is named. The pins that adorn the neckline on their uniforms are also different and are notably more rounder than their Galactica counterpart.

Viper pilots also wear helmets with the bust, wings, and front legs of Pegasus creature.

In addition, Commander Cain's helmet contains a rectangular ornament plate, which may identify him as a battlestar commander.

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  Seal of Pegasus
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  Helmet decoration for Pegasus pilots
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  Pins worn by Pegasus personnel
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  Cain's chin plate on his helmet

Miscellaneous

The life sciences patch.

Life sciences specialists wear a periwinkle-colored diamond patch on their left arms, with a silver-star surrounded by branches. This patch has a silver trim at its edges.

Accessories

A timepiece set to 200 centons.

The wearer of a uniform may also choose to wear pieces of jewlery or functional accessories.

One such accessory is a timepiece, which apparently has three functions: to keep time like a watch, a timer feature (The Gun on Ice Planet Zero, Part II), and possible time or simple math calculation. The timer feature is programmed only to keep track of time in centons.