References to the Re-imagined Series

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Film

Lucky Number Slevin

• A Battlestar Galactica poster is seen.

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.

Sydney White

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

Related imagery

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  Robot with neck cowl and eye shape/color in Beast With A Billion Backs.
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  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

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• Jonathan Coulton wrote a song entitled "Battle of Galactica", 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.

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-imaging" of the classic Battlestar Galactica radio program of the 1920s.

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".

Doctor Who

• In the Doctor Who Magazine comic strip Ophidius (republished in the graphic novel Oblivion) when the Doctor shows Izzy Sinclair the overhead scanner view, she mentions that the view she sees looks like the opening credits of Battlestar Galactica.

Star Wars

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

Video games

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• 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).

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

• IMDb's Movie Connections for Battlestar Galactica (2003)
• IMDb's Movie Connections for Battlestar Galactica (2004)
• Depeche Mode's "Precious" (Disco Mix) mp3

Re-imagined Series definition: a nickname used as a substitute for an aviator's given name in wireless communications and in conversation

Re-imagined Series definition: all-purpose vulgarism; Colonial version of "fuck" (see: frak)

Original Series definition: interchangeable term for a computer monitor and television set (see: scanner)