Uniforms (TOS)

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

Colonial Military

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

Honor guards

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

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.

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.

Insignia, pins and patches

Each battlestar has its own unique arm patches and pins.

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