List of terms (TOS)

This is a listing of terms in the original series. For terms used in the re-imagined series, see List of terms (RDM).

Acronyms

• CORA: Computer, Oral Response Activated; an artificial intelligence capable of operating a Viper (The Long Patrol)

Military jargon

• "four-point peel off": a maneuver performed with a group of four Vipers (War of the Gods, Part I)
• Warrior: an all purpose term for Colonial soldier and Viper pilot

Other colloquialisms

• felgercarb: expletive, similar to "crap"
• frack: expletive, similar to "fuck"
• plant vapors: a psychoactive drug familiar to the Colonials; Boomer comments that one of the women on Carillon was probably "smoking plant vapors" (Saga of a Star World)
• pogees: expletive, similar to "shit" (The Living Legend, Part II)
• socialator: a sex worker, escort, prostitute (Saga of a Star World)

Battlestar Galactica specific terms

• ambrosa: alcohol
• boraton: a liquid that extinguishes fires (Fire in Space)
• cubit: a form of currency
• daggit: a dog
• fumarello: a small cigar that Starbuck typically smokes
• grog: an intoxicating beverage, likely similar to beer
• lupus: a wolf-like animal
• mushies: a food
• pluton: a form of radiation that breaks down food
• protein: another type of food
• scanner: term for a computer monitor and telelvison set
• scorpius: likely term for a scorpion; Maga comments that Borellian Nomen have the patience of such a creature, he also comments that the name "Borellian Nomen" strike fear at the hearts of those who hear it like the scorpius (The Man with Nine Lives)
• seal: marriage
• solonite: an explosive used in demolitions (The Gun on Ice Planet Zero, Part II)
• tylium: a fuel source, highly combustible (Fire in Space)

Measurements

• centar: an hour of Colonial time
• centon: a minute of Colonial time
• megon: megaton
• metric: a Colonial meter
• micron: one hundreth of a centon, 0.6 seconds
• radion: a Colonial unit of radiation
• sectar: a month of Colonial time
• secton: a week of Colonial time
• volton: Colonial unit of voltage
• wavelon: Colonial unit of wavelenght
• yahren: a year of Colonial time

Original Series definition: a maneuver performed with a group of four Vipers ^{(TOS: "War of the Gods, Part I")}

Original Series definition: a psychoactive drug familiar to the Colonials; Boomer comments that the Blonde Taurus woman on Carillon was probably "smoking plant vapors" ^{(TOS: "Saga of a Star World")}

Original Series definition: another type of food

Original Series definition: scorpion; Maga comments that Borellian Nomen have the patience of such a creature, he also comments that the name "Borellian Nomen" strike fear at the hearts of those who hear it like the scorpius ^{(TOS: "The Man with Nine Lives")}

Original Series definition: unit of time akin to an "hour"

Original Series definition: a unit of time akin to a "minute"; in earlier episodes (e.g. "Saga of a Star World," "Lost Planet of the Gods, Part I"), centon is used as the Colonial equivalent of a week before being retconned in later episodes

Original Series definition: a unit of distance, the Earth measurement being equivalent to a kilometer

Original Series definition: unit of energy, akin to a rad

Original Series definition: an unspecified measure of distance, interchangeably used as an unspecified measure of time (see: sectar (unit))

Original Series definition: unit of time akin to a "week"

Original Series definition: unit of energy, akin to a volt

Original Series definition: unit of energy, akin to wavelength