I totally vote for this as permanent title. --Peter Farago 02:10, 17 September 2005 (EDT)
- Like I said, I was watching and I just said, "Wow, just like the Great MARIANAS Turkey Shoot against Japan in WWII!". --- Ricimer, 17 Sept, 2005
Time[edit]
Wasn't it a few days (maybe even a week) after Cally was released? Kuralyov 16:37, 17 September 2005 (EDT)
- Probably. I need to take another look at the timeline after I'm done with the Colonies series. --Peter Farago 17:34, 17 September 2005 (EDT)
Logic Bomb[edit]
Did Sharon actually deploy the same logic bomb to the cylon fleet? It seems implausible that they'd design a virus that their own devices were susceptible to. More likely, she was aware of some backdoors in their programming which she was able to exploit, in the same way that the Colonial fleet was decimated via a backdoor on the CNP, not an actual "virus". --Peter Farago 20:47, 22 September 2005 (EDT)
- While Adama may not have been correct, that is what he said to the crew after Valerii completed the task. A backdoor gives access, but a virus or worm completes the programming. No, I don't believe she used the same logic bomb...but took pieces of it and sent it on a transmission frequency that no properly-programmed Cylon would expect to receive odd information on, especially from another Cylon with the proper credentials such as Valerii. Spencerian 00:48, 23 September 2005 (EDT)
Won't Somebody Please Think of the Hardware?![edit]
While watching the "turkey shootout", did anyone else wonder why the pilots were ordered to destroy every single Cylon ship rather than bring some aboard Galactica for future use? I understand the pilots needed a morale boost, so letting them shred the Cylons was logical in cheering them all up, and Galactica had already had access to three Cylon ships, but surely it would've been worth capturing a few more for research or covert missions? --Pearse 10:18, 11 June 2006 (CDT)
- How could they "use" one of them? I mean Starbuck got one in Act of Contrition on a lucky shot that took out its brain, but they A) Didn't know how long the virus would work before the Raiders turn on again B) Didn't know if reinforcements would show up. --The Merovingian (C - E) 10:29, 11 June 2006 (CDT)
- I hadn't really thought that much about the ways they could use them, I just thought it was odd that they didn't even consider it. Later in the series one of the Heavy Raiders comes in useful, aiding the jumps to Caprica, so in hindsight, more captured raiders could have had their uses. --Pearse 11:33, 11 June 2006 (CDT)
- This has been discussed before in the episode article. The likely reasons why the Fleet didn't pick up include what Merv said, and that while the Raider ship may be disabled, the autonomous living element of it could still "kick." I prefer to think that it wasn't worth a salvage attempt since the battlestar wasn't up to fighting as its hard drives were restored and her fighters could only do so much if reinforcements did appear. One important note: Galactica hasn't mass production facilities to use the volume of scrap that they generated from the shoot. A more modern battlestar like Pegasus could have used the stuff, but at that time to Galactica, Pegasus was as dead as the rest of the Colonial Fleet. --Spencerian 16:24, 11 June 2006 (CDT)