This is a listing of continuity errors in the reimagined series.
Retcons[edit]
- Pyramid: In the Mini Series, pyramid is the name of a poker game. Later on, pyramid became the name of a sports game (similar to the original series' triad), and the card game was re-named Full Colors. (Resistance)
- Fleet numbers: In the mini-series, a total of 40 FTL ships (led by Roslin) rendevous with Battlestar Galactica at Ragnar Anchorage. This makes the count 41 ships, including Galactica. However, this number was enlarged for the series. In "33", Dualla states: "Jump 237 underway... 53 ships have jumped, 10 still reporting trouble with their FTL drives, including Colonial One." The count offered in "The Farm" was similar - 24 ships had left to join Roslin's fleet, which was "almost a third" of the fleet, putting the number at about 75.
- The Astral Queen: In the Mini Series, Billy Keikeya stated to Laura Roslin that the captain had 500 prisoners in his cargo hold, and that the Queen was a cargo vessel transporting prisoners to a prison. In "Bastille Day", the Billy's lines were redubbed: 1,500 prisoners were aboard the Queen, that the Queen was a prison transport. Lee Adama would go on to later state that the Queen was en route to Caprica during the Cylon attack for parole hearings.
- Cylon Detector: In the episode "Flesh and Bone", it takes only minutes to identify Sharon Valerii as a Cylon. However, in "Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down", he states that complete testing on one sample of blood takes 11 hours. Perhaps it's easier for his test to make a conclusive positive than a conclusive negative.
Danglers[edit]
- Zarek-Tigh Plotline: In the episode "Colonial Day", it is heavily implied that Ellen Tigh revealed the location of Valance to agents of Tom Zarek, and that she intends for her husband, Colonel Saul Tigh to meet with Zarek's people in the near future. As of the middle of the second season, this plotline appears to have been dropped.
Recasting[edit]
- Zak Adama: In the Mini Series, a different actor was pictured as Zak Adama. In "Act of Contrition", a new actor portrayed Zak, and the picture was changed to reflect the casting choice.
- Ellen Tigh: Same with Zak Adama. The picture of Saul Tigh's wife, which Tigh had burned a hole through, was originally a picture of David Eick's wife. When Kate Vernon was cast as Ellen in "Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down", the image was changed.
- Richard Adar: In the miniseries, portrayed by David Eick in a photograph in Baltar's domicile on Caprica. Recast as Colm Feore for the episode "Epiphanies".
VFX Gaffes[edit]
- Viper and Pilot numbers: In the episode "Flight of the Phoenix", 42 Vipers are deployed at a time when no more than 34 could have been serviceable, and with no more than 25 pilots available.
- Colonial OneHalf-way through season one, the Colonial One CG model was updated and the seal of the President of the Colonies was added to the hull. However, the reuse of stock footage from the Mini-Series and earlier in the first season cause the seal to continually disappear and re-appear in the same episode depending on what shot is used.
- Viper Types: When Starbuck and Kat launch on combat air patrol (CAP) in the episode "Scar", both pilots are flying Viper Mk. VIIs; however, during the lauch tube sequence, a Viper Mk. II was shown. As an earlier scene showed Starbuck boarding her Viper Mk. VII, it implied Kat was flying a Viper Mk. II, in complete contradiction to the rest of the episode.
- It is likely the show has no stock footage of a Mk. VII launch sequence, as they are not used often.
- It is also possible that this could have been another Viper launching for CAP duty in other parts of the asteroid belt.
Dialogue Errors[edit]
- DRADIS/RADAR:Starbuck refers to "radar range" instead of "DRADIS" in "The Hand of God", when describing the attack plan on the Cylon asteroid base.
- It actually sounds like Starbuck said "Raider range" in this scene.
- Fumarello/Cigar:Kat tells one of the nuggets that Scar will "smoke [him] like a fine cigar" instead of "fumarello". This is just one of many times the term has appeared.
- As implausible as it may be, it is possible (though dubious) that "cigar" may be a nickname for fumarello, much as "smokes" are for cigarettes or "stogies" for cigars in the real world.